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In a twist straight out of a sci-fi flick, researchers have discovered that AI agentsspecifically large language models (LLMs)can independently develop their own communication systems and biases, all without human intervention. This revelation comes from a recent study by City St George's, University of London, and...
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There are numerous ways humans can become extinct, like an asteroid crashing into Earth or nuclear bombs making the planet inhabitable, both of which have been featured in various Hollywood flicks. But instead of the sound of bombs exploding or a giant space rock smashing into our home planet, the last sounds we might...
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NetherRealm is adding a new batch of characters to the already jam-packed Mortal Kombat 1 roster with Kombat Pack 2, which is part of the Khaos Reigns DLC. The headliner is the addition of one of the most iconic movie villains of all time, the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Although there are several other...
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Watching the Super Bowl on a big screen TV is one thing, and bonus points if you're going to catch the game on an OLED or mini LED model. Even better? Kicking back and watching football (or anything, really) in a high-tech massage chair with heating, cooling, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Massage chairs aren't...
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Fears about AI rising up and annihilating humans are a bit premature at this point, but neural networks can still behave in some unpredictable and shocking ways at times. Case in point: Google's Gemini AI chatbot just unsubtly told a human to diebut at least it was polite enough to say "please" first.
Jokes aside...
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The United Kingdom's oldest satellite mysteriously relocated itself, and no one knows why, or who moved it. Because of the satellites present condition, some also consider it to be a ticking time bomb, that could riddle space with debris.
Not to be mistaken with Hollywoods Skynet, British satellite...
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Facebook, Instagram, and other Meta-owned properties went down earlier today and are still suffering from the aftershocks. Reports initially started to surface suggesting that threat actors were behind this and that it was a DDoS attack, but Meta appears to be claiming otherwise. Whether this was a technical issue or...
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Generative AI ChatGPT has seen exponential growth in the past few months, recently crossing the 100 million weekly active users. However, with all this popularity, a target was perhaps painted on the back of OpenAI and ChatGPT by threat actors looking to make a quick buck or cause mayhem. It seems the latter is what...
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Bethesda Games Studios is not a game company known for making little games. Both the Elder Scrolls series and the Fallout series consist of one massive open world after another, and even going back to the company's ancient history, The Terminator: Future Shock and Skynet games had extremely large maps with tons...
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Dire warnings from leaders in the area of AI technology continue to be voiced around the world. The latest comes from Jaan Tallinn, who founded two organizations, the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Future of Life Institute, to study and mitigate the risks of advancing AI technologies too...
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Imagine being able to walk up and unlock your front door or start your car with a simple wave of your hand like Obi-Wan Kenobi mind-tricking his way through Stormtroopers. One such person took that idea seriously and implanted (and programmed) 25 under-skin chips.
Miana Windall, a software engineer, walks around...
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There's been a lot of discussion over whether the field of artificial intelligence should be regulated, and even calls by some prominent tech leaders to temporarily pause giant AI experiments so we, as flesh and blood humans, don't shoot ourselves in the foot. And if some of the biggest names in tech are concerned...
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A major milestone in airflight comes in the form a highly-modified F-16 being successfully controlled by an AI bot for 17 hours over 12 flights back in December 2022.
Last week, the Department of Defense revealed details of a set of experimental flights by the experimental flight platform over the Air Force Test...
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The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT it making news everywhere lately. It has caused some concern for apparently being "too smart," and its addition in the latest Bing beta ha geenrated some interesting results, to say the least.ChatGPT can be a handy tool, but it currently has some significant limits, such as...
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Microsoft has limited interactions with its AI Chatbot after it generated some disturbing responses to user questions. The software giant is now restricting users to five questions per topic, and fifty questions in total per day.
Microsoft recently launched its Bing AI chatbot for the Edge browser to a limited...
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In a battle of artificially intelligent wits, researchers at an e-learning company pitted ChatGPT against Google Search to figure out which one is smarter and, more importantly, which can provide better answers to a broad range of questions that users might be inclined to look up on the web. The result? One is clearly...
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The scales of justice are not yet ready to be weighed and measured by robot lawyers powered by artificial intelligence. Or at least human lawyers are not ready to welcome AI into the fold. Under the threat of jail time, Joshua Browder, founder and CEO of DoNotPay, has decided not to let the "world's first robot...
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The running joke whenever there's a story involving artificial intelligence is that Skynet is watching and, at times, is pleased. Or in this case, seriously displeased. The reason? United States congressman Ted W. Lieu wrote an op-ed calling for the creation of a dedicated federal agency staffed with experts to...
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AMD's RDNA 3 GPU architecture found in the Radeon RX 7900 family of graphics cards was a tremendous leap in performance over the previous generation found in the Radeon RX 6000 series. Therefore, it only stands to reason that the next generation of AMD's high-performance and adaptive computing accelerators would...
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We've playfully referenced Skynet probably a million times over the years (or thereabout), and it's always been in jest pertaining to some kind of deep learning development or achievement. We're hoping that turns out to be the case again, that conjuring up Skynet turns out to be a lighthearted joke to a...
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A mechanical jumper just set a new record for any known jumper, engineered or biological. The jumping robot is able to leap an astounding 100 feet (30 meters) into the air.
The Eliot Hawkes Lab's jumping robot is referred to as a fresh approach to the design of jumping devices. It was developed by UC Santa Barbara...
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If you are a fan of the addictive Wordle game, then you might also love Adverswordle. Adverswordle is a fun alternative to the Wordle, where you try and stump an AI opponent instead of the other way around. Sounds easy, right? Well, there's more to it than that.
Wordle made headlines at the end of last year, and...
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