It’s solved! Episode Two In case you missed it, newly-minted Substack author Sam Bankman-Fried was back on the blogging grind last week. This time, he laid even further into his bankrupt exchange’s longtime lawyers, the New York City-based firm Sullivan & Cromwell — meanwhile, of course, once again insisting that he’s totally innocent and (the… Continue reading Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Excel Docs That He Says Shows Nothing Was His Fault
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The Best Audio Mixers of 2023
Audio mixers are an essential piece of sound equipment that comprise the control center of every professional sound system, from live performance venues to recording studios. The best audio mixers excel at combining signals from a number of sources like microphones, keyboards, and guitars, and blending them into a cohesive mix that’s clear, balanced, and… Continue reading The Best Audio Mixers of 2023
Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles
Did they just build Mousenstein’s Monster?! FrankenBot Scientists have created remote-controlled walking robots actuated by mouse muscle cells, Inverse reports, a Frankensteinian mashup of state-of-the-art robotics and basic biological systems that could lay the groundwork for far more complex cyborg robots in the future. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Science Robotics,… Continue reading Scientists Build Gruesome Robots That Move With Mouse Muscles
The TSA’s Entire No Fly List Appears to Have Just Leaked
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
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