“Ever had hot sand whip across your face?” Dark and Stormy For the first time ever, a dust storm has been observed outside of our Solar System — and naturally, it was the powerful James Webb Space Telescope that made the discovery. A press release on the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Webb-site details the JWST-detected… Continue reading The Webb Telescope Is So Powerful, It Spotted a Dust Storm on a Planet in a Different Star System
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Something Extremely Goofy Happens When You Ask Google’s Bard AI To Generate Images
Who among us hasn’t fluffed up their resume? Bardy Brag The latest Big Tech chatbot, the Bard AI by Google, just dropped — and unsurprisingly, it’s got some rough edges. When it comes to text generation, Bard is, like its namesake, pretty dang clever. But when you ask the chatbot, which is meant to generate… Continue reading Something Extremely Goofy Happens When You Ask Google’s Bard AI To Generate Images
Stanford Pulls Down ChatGPT Clone After Safety Concerns
They cloned a little too much of ChatGPT’s capabilities. Pack It Up Just days after unveiling a demo of a ChatGPT clone called Alpaca, Stanford researchers have taken their AI offline, citing concerns over costs, and more importantly, safety, The Register reports. “The original goal of releasing a demo was to disseminate our research in… Continue reading Stanford Pulls Down ChatGPT Clone After Safety Concerns
It Turns Out FTX and Alameda Owe Margaritaville a Staggering Amount of Money
That’s… so many cheeseburgers. Margarita Bill The Margaritaville bill always comes due — and in FTX’s case, it was way higher than we thought. Back in November, it emerged that the now-defunct crypto exchange’s closely-tied hedge fund, the also-bankrupt Alameda Research, owed the Jimmy Buffet-owned Bahamian resort roughly $50,000. Which, of course, is already a… Continue reading It Turns Out FTX and Alameda Owe Margaritaville a Staggering Amount of Money
Journalist Gets USB Drive, Turns Out to Be a Bomb That Explodes When He Plugs It In
New fear unlocked: an Ecuadorian journalist plugged a USB device into his computer, and it turned out to be a bomb that exploded in the newsroom. As the BBC and other outlets reported, Lenin Artieda of the Ecuavisa TV station was the unlucky recipient of a bomb disguised as a thumb drive — and although Ecuador’s… Continue reading Journalist Gets USB Drive, Turns Out to Be a Bomb That Explodes When He Plugs It In
Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories
Google just released its much-anticipated rival to Microsoft’s OpenAI-powered Bing AI — and it’s already churning out false information, complete with fake citations of news articles that look plausible, but don’t actually exist. While the system, called Bard and currently on a waitlist for early users, is impressive in similar ways to both Bing AI… Continue reading Google’s Hot New Bard AI Is Already Spouting Ridiculous Conspiracy Theories
White House Freaked Out Over Elon Musk’s Selfie With Top Russian Propagandist
The White House is apparently irked with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk after a selfie of the entrepreneur with a Russian propagandist ended up online. As Bloomberg reports, there doesn’t appear to have been much of an exchange between Musk and Russian TV personality Nailya Asker-Zade beyond the purportedly state-controlled journalist asking him for a… Continue reading White House Freaked Out Over Elon Musk’s Selfie With Top Russian Propagandist
Russia’s Space Program Appears to Be Completely Falling Apart
Russia’s space program has seen better days. Its decline is perhaps best embodied in its Soyuz spacecraft, once the ever-dependable, go-to vessel for ferrying both NASA and Roscosmos astronauts to the International Space Station — and now the subject of public scrutiny after numerous high-profile failures. In December, a Soyuz docked to the ISS started… Continue reading Russia’s Space Program Appears to Be Completely Falling Apart
People Keep Posting Phony AI-Generated Images of Trump Getting Arrested
“We are witnessing a new form of ‘anticipatory disinformation.’” Sc-AI-m Artists People are spreading AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested before it’s even happened — assuming it actually does, that is — because that’s the world we live in now, apparently. As The Daily Beast reports — and as Twitter users have been posting about… Continue reading People Keep Posting Phony AI-Generated Images of Trump Getting Arrested
ChatGPT Bug Accidentally Revealed Users’ Chat Histories, Email Addresses, and Phone Numbers
“It was clearly other people’s contact information.” That’s Bad OpenAI’s ChatGPT was down for some time yesterday — exactly how long is a little blurry, as reports varied from a few hours to almost the full day — as the company worked to fix a glitch that made user chat histories publicly visible. As anyone who’s… Continue reading ChatGPT Bug Accidentally Revealed Users’ Chat Histories, Email Addresses, and Phone Numbers