It was a Chat-torney at law. Don’t trust fallible humans to decide a court verdict? Enlist ChatGPT then. This week, a court in India redefined “Judgment Day” after asking OpenAI’s omnipresent tech if a murder and assault trial defendant should be let out on bail. The revolutionary decision occurred at the Punjab and Haryana High … Read more
Did “The Simpsons” predict this? An artist has reimagined the beloved cartoon characters as humans with the help of AI software and a bit of photo retouching. Hidreley Diao, a regular contributor to the site Bored Panda, let curiosity get the best of him, asking AI to render many animated household names in flesh and … Read more
Artificial intelligence really can do some things humans can’t. One man posted on Twitter that ChatGPT saved his dog’s life with a correct diagnosis after vets couldn’t figure out the problem. Twitter user @peakcooper, who goes by Cooper on the platform, wrote that his dog was diagnosed with a tick-borne disease and started treatment for … Read more
Single New Yorker Kristen Ruby recently got a text message from a guy she’s known for about two years that didn’t quite sound like him. “I was surprised and hurt to hear you refer to me as a narcissist … I would appreciate it if you could share with me what behaviors or actions you have observed … Read more
Artificial intelligence has developed a treatment for cancer in just 30 days and can predict a patient’s survival rate. In a new study published in the journal Chemical Science, researchers at the University of Toronto along with Insilico Medicine developed a potential treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with an AI drug discovery platform called Pharma.AI. … Read more
A recent competition has sought to determine who is superior in the realm of — man or machine — and for now, at least, it’s good news for humans. Announcing a winner on Friday, the competition invited both photographers and artificial intelligence (AI) creators to submit their best works, with a prize of $1000 at stake, run … Read more
Life may soon feel like “The Jetsons.” The days of spending all your time completing chores around the house might soon be over, according to a study published Wednesday in PLOS One. Researchers from the University of Oxford suggest that by 2033, many household chores will be automated, decreasing the average amount of time we … Read more
Surely this will complicate the game red light, green light. Researchers at North Carolina State are proposing a major change to traffic patterns across the country as they say a new, four-colored light at intersections would ease congestion and lower drivers’ fuel consumption — thus inadvertently saving car owners money. The fourth artificially intelligent “white … Read more
E.T. phone home? Astronomers have discovered eight “suspicious” radio signals that they say may be evidence of “technological life beyond earth.” A team of experts, led by University of Toronto student Peter Ma, developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm that helped them to detect the signals during an examination of 820 stars at the Green … Read more
If you’re not sure whether to smash or pass on your date, there may soon be an app to help with that. A study published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing revealed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now able to inform you how well a date went by measuring a person’s sweat, breathing patterns … Read more
Move over, autotune. Deepfake vocals could be the next big tool for musical manipulation. This week, Grammy award-winning artist David Guetta claimed the crowd at a Feb. 3 performance “went nuts” when he played a track featuring the voice of Eminem — despite the fact that the 50-year-old rapper never recorded the song. The French … Read more
The popular new artificial intelligence service ChatGPT refused to write a story about Hunter Biden in the style of the New York Post — but gladly spit out a CNN-like puff piece protective of the president’s embattled son. It is the most recent example of the futuristic AI’s liberal bias, which seems to have been … Read more
A popular gamer on Twitch has tearfully revealed she is the latest high-profile victim of deepfake porn, with predators pasting her face into a pre-existing adult video to make it seem she legitimately appeared in the kinky clip. QTCinderella, a 28-year-old American whose real name is Blaire, went live on the streaming site last week … Read more
An AI app has been hit with backlash for allowing users to “chat” with controversial figures from history — including Adolf Hitler. Historical Figures uses Artificial Intelligence technology to power “text conversations with robots [that are] meant to simulate the perspectives of notable people,” NBC reports. The app became available on Apple’s App Store earlier … Read more
Jean Smart and Margot Robbie aren’t so fond of advanced technology in Hollywood. During promotion for the film “Babylon” — which documents the rise and fall of characters in 1920s Hollywood — the cast of the movie was asked what they believe will be the next big shift in Tinseltown. In Entertainment Weekly’s “Around the … Read more
It’s the little engine that could … bring down Google and perhaps the human race. A tech company has developed a state-of-the-art AI chatbot so sophisticated that it could render search engines — not to mention countless jobs — obsolete. Unveiled last week by the OpenAI company, ChatGPT has already amassed more than 1 million … Read more
For most patients, the pulse oximeter is a familiar tool from doctor’s office visits. Placed on a finger or the lobe of a patient’s ear, a pulse oximeter is an easy way to quickly measure one’s oxygen saturation (SpO2), which should usually be above 90 percent. But this device may contribute to disparities in care … Read more