Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, has triumphantly returned to lead the ChatGPT maker after a rather perplexing five days. The firm said late on Tuesday night that it had “reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO”; however, Altman will be leading a reorganized non-profit board that would supervise the company’s for-profit division. The...
Despite the horrific deaths of monkeys it experimented on, Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain-computer interface (BCI) business is ready to implant its robot-assisted brain chip. According to Bloomberg, Musk wants to implant the own robot surgeon as soon as feasible. Even though it received FDA permission for human studies in May and announced in September that it was recruiting its first human...
Australian news source Crikey reported that Adobe was selling AI-generated photographs of the Israel-Hamas fighting, a disturbing and ethically repulsive example of a firm benefiting from online falsehoods. After searching for “conflict between Israel and Palestine” on Adobe Stock, a subscription service that provides generic stock images and now AI-shots, photorealistic images of...
According to MIT Technology Review, researchers in China say that by giving deaf youngsters a revolutionary genetic therapy, they were able to restore their hearing in a ground-breaking trial. In an experiment that they claim has restored hearing in four of the five children who received the treatment, the scientists altered a benign virus by inserting new genetic code into it. The resulting...
Elon Musk has offered to donate Wikipedia one billion dollars, but at a high, stupid price, because buying Twitter for $44 billion wasn’t enough. Musk, 52, said on Sunday to X-formerly-Twitter, “I will give them a billion dollars,” “if they change their name to Dickipedia.” Musk made the explicit offer amid a flurry of articles criticizing Wikipedia, in which he...
As people who are passionate about fashion, we have long been intrigued by the idea of a garment that can change both its color and its design. This would free us from the need to stock our closet with a large number of different dresses. However, the day has come, or will come, very soon, when this fantasy will become a reality. Surprisingly, several businesses have already begun working on it...
Do you believe you can trick an AI into saying things it shouldn’t? Microsoft is placing a large wager that you cannot, and it will reimburse you if you are mistaken. Microsoft revealed a new “bug bounty” program on its blog, promising to pay security researchers anywhere from $2,000 to $15,000 for discovering “vulnerabilities” in its Bing AI products, such as...
With the launch of the Snapdragon X series, Qualcomm has renamed its PC platform. This is a significant shift from the chipmaker’s 2018 introduction of the Snapdragon 8cx architecture. Examine the upcoming actions that Qualcomm has planned. In the quest to “revolutionize the next generation of PC experiences,” the Snapdragon X series represents a positive development. Improved...
Looks like Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X before Twitter, has decided to put her speaking tour on hold for the time being. Yaccarino declared on social media that she had withdrawn from her planned presentation at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference, which is set to begin the following week. X claims that she is occupied. X’s official statement, which was published by WSJ...
Many scientists have assumed Mercury is decreasing over billions of years, but recent evidence reveals it may still be, leaving fractured creases. In an editorial for The Conversation, planetary scientist David Rothery, a professor at the UK’s Open University and co-author of a Nature Geoscience publication, suggested that Mercury’s crust creases may be caused by ongoing cooling and...
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