Counterintelligence agents in Germany have sprung into action after one of Vladimir Putin’s top allies in the press published an audio recording on Friday that she claimed was a conversation between German generals plotting to blow up the Crimean Bridge. The 38-minute audio clip, first shared by RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, circulated simultaneously in Russia’s … Read more
ChatGPT hallucinates. We all know this already. But on Tuesday it seemed like someone slipped on a banana peel at OpenAI headquarters and switched on a fun new experimental chatbot called the Synonym Scrambler. Tweet may have been deleted Actually, ChatGPT was freaking out in many ways yesterday, but one recurring theme was that it … Read more
Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany on Monday said she found it “infuriating” that Donald Trump came in last in a new survey ranking all U.S. presidents. McEnany, who served as Trump’s press secretary for much of his final year in office, made an “uck” sound of disgust as she summed up the survey of social … Read more
Play video content Talk about fishing for attention — some guy is in serious trouble after stripping naked and jumping into a Bass Pro Shop pond — and footage from horrified bystanders has captured everything. You gotta see it to believe it — the man executes a cannonball from the top floor of the store … Read more
A Florida couple got upset at the airport when their flight was delayed, preventing them from returning home to their two dogs. A clip of the incident, first posted to TikTok, shows Dustin Miller and his husband Anthony Thorne having a meltdown at the Charlotte Douglas Airport in North Carolina. They had just learned that … Read more
Unlike OpenAI, Mozilla’s nonprofit cannot fire executives in charge of for-profit work. Each for-profit unit has its own board, with members annually selected by the nonprofit foundation’s board. “It’s different jobs, it’s a different mix of skills,” Surman says. “If you have different functions, it makes sense to have a separation of powers.” The different … Read more
Welcome to AI This Week, Gizmodo’s weekly roundup where we do a deep dive on what’s been happening in artificial intelligence. Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson Interview As governments fumble for a regulatory approach to AI, everybody in the tech world seems to have an opinion about what that approach should … Read more
Headlines This WeekAcademic researchers at the University of Chicago are helping artists fight back against AI algorithms that would ingest and monetize their works. Researchers have developed a program called “Nightshade” that could “break” AI programs that ingest unauthorized content that has been laced with the software. What is AI “exposure”? That’s the fun new … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Although 1000’s of miles separate Cleménce Dubois from the US, the 20-year-old Parisian has spent months transfixed by what was taking place on the opposite facet of the Atlantic — notably due to Taylor Swift and her a lot anticipated Eras Tour. For the reason that tour started on March 17, … Read more