Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot goes viral with mind-blowing deepfakes
Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is flooding the web with “deepfake” images of everyone from Donald Trump to Musk himself – and the results range from totally wacky to downright...
A Popular iOS Illustration App Is Saying No to Generative AI
The backlash against image and video synthesis is not solely focused on creative app developers. Hardware manufacturer Wacom and game publisher Wizards of the Coast have faced criticism and issued...
LLMs develop their own understanding of reality as their language abilities improve
Ask a large language model (LLM) like GPT-4 to smell a rain-soaked campsite, and it’ll politely decline. Ask the same system to describe that scent to you, and it’ll wax...
A new system lets robots sense human touch without artificial skin
Even the most capable robots aren’t great at sensing human touch; you typically need a computer science degree or at least a tablet to interact with them effectively. That may...
Elon Musk’s ban on remote work at X beats disability bias claim
A federal judge in California on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit accusing social media platform X of forcing out workers with disabilities after Elon Musk took over the company and barred employees from...
An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver might not seem that notable. Featuring...
3 Questions: How to prove humanity online
As artificial intelligence agents become more advanced, it could become increasingly difficult to distinguish between AI-powered users and real humans on the internet. In a new white paper, researchers from...
Why you’re about to see a lot more drones in the sky
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. If you follow drone news closely—and you’re forgiven if you...
Bill Gates ‘terrified’ mega-charity employees, book claims
Employees who worked at at Bill Gates’ mega-charity claimed they were terrified by the billionaire’s domineering behavior — with one was likening the tech tycoon to France’s King Louis XIV,...
This Code Breaker Is Using AI to Decode the Heart’s Secret Rhythms
Roeland Decorte grew up in a nursing home in Belgium, where he learned to spot the subtle early signs of mental decline in small changes to how residents walked or...
New open-source tool helps to detangle the brain
In late 2023, the first drug with potential to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease was approved by the U.S. Federal Drug Administration. Alzheimer’s is one of many debilitating neurological disorders...
Here’s how people are actually using AI
This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first, sign up here. When the generative AI boom started with ChatGPT in...
Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report
The Justice Department is reportedly considering a push for a historic breakup of Google’s business empire after a federal judge ruled the Big Tech giant has an illegal monopoly over...
He Made a Movie About Humans Rising Up Against AI. Now He’s Doing the Real Thing
When I interviewed writers and actors at the picket lines of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes last year, there was a mix of sentiment around AI, which, while largely negative,...
Proton-conducting materials could enable new green energy technologies
As the name suggests, most electronic devices today work through the movement of electrons. But materials that can efficiently conduct protons — the nucleus of the hydrogen atom — could...
