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
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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
Officials Say It’s Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River
“The stink was terrible. I was worried about my own health.” Keep Calm Oxygen levels are so dangerously low in an Australian river that millions of fish have died — but don’t worry, officials say everything’s fine. Just take it from the Department of Public Industries — whatever that means — in New South Wales,… Continue reading Officials Say It’s Fine That Millions of Fish Suddenly Died in This River
OpenAI CEO Warns That Competitors Will Make AI That’s More Evil
Worried about ChatGPT creator OpenAI and the implications of its powerful, privately-owned, and occasionally unhinged AI technology? Fair. But according to company CEO Sam Altman, you should maybe turn your attention to OpenAI’s burgeoning — and potentially even less ethical — rivals, instead. “A thing that I do worry about is… we’re not going to… Continue reading OpenAI CEO Warns That Competitors Will Make AI That’s More Evil
Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT
The worst part? It passed peer review. Big Oops In an effort to raise alarm bells about how chatbots can enable academic misconduct, a group of professors from England’s Plymouth Marjon University (PMU) submitted a research paper written entirely by ChatGPT for peer-review to test whether secretly bot-penned “research” could slip through the process unnoticed.… Continue reading Researchers Reveal That Paper About Academic Cheating Was Generated Using ChatGPT
Watch Out, Folks: AI Image Generators Can Do Hands Now
AI images are about to be a real handful, now more than ever. Big Upgrade Midjourney recently announced its latest iteration, V5, and it’s set a new bar in achieving uncanny, Instagram-filtered photorealism. “MJ v5 currently feels to me like finally getting glasses after ignoring bad eyesight for a little bit too long,” Julie Wireland,… Continue reading Watch Out, Folks: AI Image Generators Can Do Hands Now
Top Scientists Say We’re in Deep, Deep Trouble
Things are not looking good. Ring The Alarm It’s not over just yet, the United Nations’ climate watchdog group said in its latest anxiety-inspiring report, but things are looking very, very bad. As the Associated Press notes in its write-up of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, officials with the international body say… Continue reading Top Scientists Say We’re in Deep, Deep Trouble
Scientists Propose Mars Settlers Live in Potato-Based Structures
Hey, stop eating the Mars habitat! Potato House British scientists say they’ve made fancy space concrete out of potato starch — and that it works much better than the stuff they made before, which would have needed both blood and urine to work. In a press release about the material, which they’re calling “StarCrete,” researchers at… Continue reading Scientists Propose Mars Settlers Live in Potato-Based Structures
ChatGPT Is Hilariously Bad at Generating Random Numbers
How hard can it be? Ran-Dumb ChatGPT may be an eloquent speaker, bullshit artist, and purveyor of misinformation — but a mathematician it is not. Yes, you may be familiar with accounts of people convincing ChatGPT that 2+2=5, but OpenAI’s chatbot has other, more subtle ways that it will screw up simple, math-related tasks that could easily… Continue reading ChatGPT Is Hilariously Bad at Generating Random Numbers