This is embarrassing. TSA Leak A cybersecurity hacktivist appears to have leaked the Transportation Security Administration’s No Fly List, a highly sensitive document, after discovering it on an unsecured server, the Daily Dot reports. Unsurprisingly, the TSA is now investigating how the data was exposed. It’s an egregious lapse in cybersecurity protocols that has already… Continue reading The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked
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CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
The prominent tech news site CNET‘s attempt to pass off AI-written work keeps getting worse. First, the site was caught quietly publishing the machine learning-generated stories in the first place. Then the AI-generated content was found to be riddled with factual errors. Now, CNET‘s AI also appears to have been a serial plagiarist — of… Continue reading CNET’s AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism
Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test
Yet another AI-induced existential crisis. All Business Just in case anyone out there — even you, c-suite suits — had any remaining shred of hope that their job is truly safe from the robots, we’re here to let you know: ChatGPT, OpenAI’s groundbreaking language modeling AI, just passed a Wharton Business School exam, according to… Continue reading Sorry, Suits: ChatGPT Just Passed a Wharton Business School Test
Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”
Marines also fooled it by doing somersaults and pretending to be a tree. Hiding in a Box The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) robots were apparently trained to identify human targets — but were easily fooled when soldiers hid in cardboard boxes, a hilarious workaround to billions of taxpayer dollars in AI robotics… Continue reading Marines Evaded a Military Robot by Hiding Inside a Cardboard Box “Like Bugs Bunny in a Looney Tunes Cartoon”
Meta Board Trashes Facebook’s “Convoluted and Poorly Defined” Female Nipple Rule
Will the nipple be freed? Battle Chest The group tasked with overseeing decisions at Facebook and Instagram is suggesting that Meta, those social networks’ parent company, take a long, hard look at its infamous rule banning the “female-presenting nipple.” In a statement, Meta’s Oversight Board said its suggestion for revision of the nipple rule stems… Continue reading Meta Board Trashes Facebook’s “Convoluted and Poorly Defined” Female Nipple Rule
Conservatives Furious, Claiming ChatGPT Has “Gone Woke”
For years, artificial intelligence researchers have been working to combat the racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other harmful biases embedded into machine learning systems. Now, in the era of generative AI reaching market, guardrails against machine learning biases are more important than ever, especially when you consider how OpenAI’s text-generating ChatGPT chatbot could be used to… Continue reading Conservatives Furious, Claiming ChatGPT Has “Gone Woke”
AI Dreams Up 1980s “Matrix” Starring Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus
Not gonna lie, these are pretty amazing. Jodorowsky’s AI Imagine, if you will, an 80s version of “The Matrix” filmed by “El Topo” director Alejandro Jodorowsky and starring Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus, Viggo Mortensen as Neo, Tommy Lee Jones as Agent Smith, and Sharon Stone as Trinity. With the help of artificial intelligence, a team… Continue reading AI Dreams Up 1980s “Matrix” Starring Jeff Goldblum as Morpheus
Residents Annoyed by Crypto Mine That Emits Constant, Horrible Noise
A “small jet that never leaves.” Ceaseless Sound Cryptocurrency has gone from boom to bust, but in a small North Carolinian town called Murphy nested in the Blue Ridge mountains, it persists with a grating blare. That’s courtesy of a local crypto mine packed from end to end with towering arrays of computers and noisy… Continue reading Residents Annoyed by Crypto Mine That Emits Constant, Horrible Noise
Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad
Justice for Toadzilla, may we forever stan. RIP Toadzilla A new amphibious critter, named “Toadzilla” by its discoverers, has been crowned as the world’s largest known toad, clocking in at roughly 6 pounds — that’s about six times the average for its species, the already-chonky cane toad. “I reached down and grabbed the cane toad… Continue reading Authorities Euthanize World’s Largest Toad
A New Scientific Paper Credits ChatGPT AI as a Coauthor
OpenAI’s viral text generator ChatGPT has made some serious waves over the last couple of months, offering the public access to a chatbot that’s arguably a vast improvement over its numerous and deeply flawed predecessors. In fact, one group of researchers is now so confident in its capabilities that they’ve included it as a coauthor in… Continue reading A New Scientific Paper Credits ChatGPT AI as a Coauthor