What Is an AI ‘Black Box’?
Black box algorithms make it very difficult to understand how AIs work, but the situation isn’t quite black and white. Advertisement The opposite of a black box is sometimes referred…
OpenAI’s Sam Altman Promises His Company Won’t Leave the EU, Actually
Advertisement Advertisement While the White House has issued some guidance on combating the risks of AI, the U.S. is still miles behind on any real AI legislation. There is some…
Watch Ukraine’s ‘Kamikaze Drones’ Slam Into Trucks, Tanks, Other Drones
Оператори дронів-камікадзе ЦСО «А» СБУ нанесли черговову серію ударів по окупантахThe SBU said these so-called “kamikaze drones,” invoking the Japanese suicide bombing tactic of WWII, were conducted by the Special…
Welp, the FDA Says Elon’s Brain Interface Company Can Start Carving Up Humans
Neuralink and the FDA did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment. Advertisement Advertisement What is Neuralink? The Musk-owned brain-computer interface (BCI) company is one of many startups racing…
Back From the Dead? Sydney, Microsoft’s Psychotic Chatbot, Could Return
Shane, Come Back! – Shane (8/8) Movie CLIP (1953) HDSydney, when it was free, was a truly weird phenomenon. It cheated at tic tac toe, insisted that one user was…
15 Memes That Trolled Russia Too Hard
NAFO is a bit hard to define. It has a website (and merch), but there’s no organized leadership. Instead, its extremely online adherents hang out on Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and…
Sudowrite Launches Novel-Writing AI Software for Pseudo-Writers
Founder James Yu did not respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment but said in a video posted on Twitter that the tool “allows authors to collaborate with AI … to…
AI-Written Hoax Article About Fake Tans and Racism Fools Irish Newspaper
Advertisement The Times took the article down in less than 24 hours, but the Acosta-Cortez Twitter account posted an archived link to the story. The AI hoax quickly made international…
I Created a Biased AI Algorithm 25 Years Ago—Tech Companies Are Still Making the Same Mistake.
AI researcher and artist Joy Buolamwini’s video poem ‘AI, Ain’t I a Woman?’ One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist. For the 1998 head-tracking system, it…
Everything Google Announced About AI, Bard, and PaLM 2 at I/O 2023
Before Google’s latest I/O event could even begin, the tech giant was already trying to stake a claim for its new AI. As music artist Dan Deacon played trippy, chip…