ChatGPT flunks Martin Gardner’s old brainteasers.
If you’re a longtime Scientific American reader, or just a geek of a certain age, you’ll remember Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” puzzle column. (It got […]
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U.S. Marshals use Twitter partner to scope out abortion-rights protestors.
The Intercept has found that Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, has been collecting information on abortion protests for federal law enforcement by paying close […]
The internet isn’t all bots. It’s about *half* bots.
Security Magazine evaluates (using Imperva’s Bad Bot Report) just how much internet traffic comes from humans, and how much is automatically generated machines. The latest […]
China makes first ChatGPT arrest – for manufacturing fake news.
Vice‘s Motherboard covers what is probably the first-ever AI-related arrest, by Chinese officials who accuse a man of using the software to mass-produce fake news: […]
An AI fighter plane has taken off, engaged a simulated enemy and landed without a human pilot’s help.
DARPA reports on the Air Combat Evolution program’s newest breakthrough, which took a regular F-16 fighter jet, equipped it with an Artificial Intelligence program capable […]
Study: ChatGPT could earn an MBA from Wharton
A professor at the prestigious Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania – probably America’s most highly regarded business school – has found […]
Twitter’s collapse could wipe clean the historical record – of the last 16 years’ major moments, at least.
MIT Technology Review takes a serious look at the ramifications of having public discourse in private hands, especially when it comes to a written record […]
Maybe we’ll be able to answer our phones again after all. A cybersecurity expert is hopeful.
We in the Guild are not quite ready to break out the chilled sparkling cider and start dialing random numbers to celebrate… but Scientific American […]
Mind-reading helmet used to detect porn in China.
Maybe a half-step beyond “I know it when I see it.” PC Gamer repeats reports of some strange technological applications allegedly being tested in China, […]
Social media makes people unhappy… but it doesn’t have to.
Scientific American takes a look at our online habits and finds we’re not making ourselves happy. The technology makes us lose track of time, disrupts […]
“Looty”: using NFTs to steal back looted African artworks, digitally.
Reuters describes the Looty Project as one man’s crusade to finance new artists in Nigeria and Benin by selling NFTs minted from 3D images of […]
Laugh, quantum computer, laugh… in IBM’s gum tree.
Popular Science discusses what could be IBM’s quantum breakthrough – a quantum processor named “Kookaburra” that’s set to start computing in 2025: Last year, IBM […]
The guy who took down North Korea’s internet.
Wired recently ran a fun story about one man making a difference – a cybersecurity guy named P4x, who noticed that state-sponsored North Korean hackers […]
Programming computers to find Antarctic meteorites.
Science magazine explains how that big southerly continent has become the best place to find meteorites, and how those ancient fallen rocks offer priceless clues […]
Gene Roddenberry’s autograph in bacterial DNA sold as an NFT, displayed at Art Basel.
The Verge has one of the most potentially confusing science stories in a while. Gene Roddenberry’s estate, they report, has rendered the Star Trek creator’s […]