Someone Turned the macOS Folder Icon Into a Real-Life Wallet
If you’re using a Mac, take a quick peek at your desktop. It’s probably filled with lots of confusingly labelled folders full of random files as a result of a…
Insider’s Editor-in-Chief Announces Writers Will Begin Experimenting With AI
Insider’s global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson has announced to both the newsroom and the public that the outlet will begin experimenting with ways to leverage ChatGPT for journalism. It’s Magic: LG’s…
Deep Space Missions Must Recreate Exact Earth-Like Conditions to Survive, Scientists Argue
One of the main questions surrounding humanity’s next giant leap into deep space is whether humans can thrive on missions far from Earth. A new theory says yes, but only…
China’s Great Firewall Comes for Generative AI, and Experts Are Worried
China’s top digital regulator proposed bold new guidelines this week that prohibit ChatGPT-style large language models from spitting out content believed to subvert state power or advocate for the overthrow of…
Rich People’s Swimming Pools Are Making Water Scarce
As the world gets warmer and droughts grip cities from Madrid to Shanghai, it can seem like we’re headed for a Mad Max-style future where water is a scarce resource.…
19 Things ChatGPT Can and Can’t Do
Photo: Bryan Pollard (Shutterstock) In December, a Furman University professor, Darren Hick, caught a student using ChatGPT to write a final paper on a philosophical paradox. Hick failed the student…
New Map of Dark Matter Validates Einstein’s Theory of Gravity
Scientists using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile have made a detailed map of dark matter’s distribution across a quarter of the sky. First Full-Color Images From Webb…
Please Listen to Edgelord Patrick Bateman and 6 Other Bizarre AI-Generated Voices
Photo: YouTube Artificial intelligence is one of the buzziest terms in the tech industry right now and, while surely a lot of that buzz is just pure hype, one place…
‘Thirsty’ AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor’s Cooling Tower, Study Finds
Popular large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are energy intensive, requiring massive server farms to provide enough data to train the powerful programs. Cooling those same…
Sul Sul: Study Mixes ChatGPT With ‘The Sims’ to Delightful Effect
At long last, researchers from Stanford University and Google teamed up to answer one of the most pressing questions about AI: Can we make ChatGPT play The Sims? The answer,…