Why scientists are tracking whale tails with AI
Researchers using an AI photo-scanning tool similar to facial recognition have learned that there’s been a 20% decline in North Pacific Ocean humpback whale populations over the past decade. The…
OpenAI wants to devour a huge chunk of the internet. Who’s going to stop them?
You probably don’t know about Automattic, but they know you. As the parent company of WordPress, its content management systems host around 43 percent of the internet’s 10 million most…
OpenAI wants to make a walking, talking humanoid robot smarter
Just a few years ago, attempts at autonomous, human-shaped bipedal robots were laughable and far-fetched. Two-legged robots competing in high-profile Pentagon challenges famously stumbled and fell their way through obstacle…
The Apple Car is dead
It turns out that last month’s report on Apple kicking its tortured, multibillion dollar electric vehicle project down the road another few years was a bit conservative. During an internal…
Google pauses Gemini image tools after AI generates ‘inaccuracies’ in race
Facing bias accusations, Google this week was forced to pause the image generation portion of Gemini, its generative AI model. The temporary suspension follows backlash from users who criticized it…
Washington puzzles over AI in health care
This article was originally published on KFF Health News. Lawmakers and regulators in Washington are starting to puzzle over how to regulate artificial intelligence in health care—and the AI industry thinks…
ChatGPT has been generating bizarre nonsense (more than usual)
It’s no secret at this point that commonly used large language models can struggle to accurately represent facts and sometimes provide misleading answers. OpenAI’s ChatGPT briefly took that reality to…
A ridiculous AI-generated rat penis made it into a peer-reviewed journal
A prominent scientific journal has officially retracted an article featuring an AI-generated image of a rat with large genitals alongside strings of nonsensical gibberish words. The embarrassing reversal highlights the…
OpenAI’s Sora pushes us one mammoth step closer towards the AI abyss
It’s hard to write about Sora without feeling like your mind is melting. But after OpenAI’s surprise artificial intelligence announcement yesterday afternoon, we have our best evidence yet of what…
A new AI-powered satellite will create Google Maps for methane pollution
Methane emissions, be it from industrial cattle farming or fossil fuel extraction, are responsible for roughly 30 percent of the Earth’s climate change issues. But despite the massive amounts of…
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