Archive: December 2022

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Life imitates AI art. Plastic surgeons say that more patients are coming in and asking to look like an AI-generated version of themselves with cartoonishly unrealistic features, in the latest grim sign of how the tech preys on our insecurities and even shapes beauty standards. Rachel Westbay, a cosmetic dermatologist in New York, described how one woman brought in a caricature-like image

Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images; Futurism In November 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was unceremoniously forced out of the company following a dramatic power struggle. Since Altman’s ousting — and eventual rehiring — the conversation surrounding the ethics of the AI industry has only become more polarizing. OpenAI, once a research lab “free from financial obligations” and purportedly dedicated to the betterment of humankind through AI, transformed itself into

Biz & IT Tay, the neo-Nazi millennial chatbot, gets autopsied Microsoft apologizes for her behavior and talks about what went wrong. Ars Staff – Mar 25, 2016 8:15 pm | 201 A user told Tay to tweet Trump propaganda; she did (though the tweet has now been deleted). A user told Tay to tweet Trump propaganda; she did (though the tweet has now been deleted). Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscri

The 3rd Wiley Star Scientist Award (Wiley Rising Star Scientist Award) officially launched and opened for applications on November 7, 2026. This year’s award focuses on the field of materials science, while continuing to offer the AI Special Award. The Journal Ranking Table Team of the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences will provide support for the selection process, and renowned scholars in relevant fields will be invited to form the ex

In March, an Italian privacy regulator temporarily banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT, worried that the text generator had no age-verification controls or any “legal basis” for gathering online user data to train the AI tool’s algorithms. The regulator gave OpenAI until April 30 to fix these issues, and last Friday, OpenAI announced it had implemented many of the requested changes ahead of schedule. In a statement to the Associated Press, OpenAI confirmed that Italy

It feels like tech workers have caught very few breaks over the past several years, between ongoing mass layoffs, stagnating wages amid inflation, AI supposedly coming for jobs, and unpopular orders to return to office that, for many, threaten to disrupt work-life balance. But in 2024, a potentially critical mass of tech workers seemed to reach a breaking point. As labor rights groups advocating for tech workers told Ars, these workers are banding together

Getty Images / Xvision With Wall Street on pins and needles amidst a wide-ranging discussion of AI safety, we may well be living through one of the most consequential weeks for the future of AI in the United States. That doesn’t necessarily mean we’re headed to an ascendant future for the AI industry. According to London-based firm Capital Economics, the entire economy of the Western world is currently mired in a “late-stage bubble” — a massive misallocati

All about Apple see more All about Artificial Intelligence see more Apple launched the new Siri with artificial intelligence in Portuguese, alongside operating system updates for version 27.2. The assistant gained features to better understand requests, personal information, and perform tasks in different apps.Available in beta, it also allows users to analyze images, draft texts, and answer questions about various topics. Access requires a device compatib

Graphical abstract. Credit: Nucleic Acids Research (2026). DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1510 MicroRNAs, whose discovery was recognized with the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, are central regulators of gene expression, yet a fundamental question has remained unanswered: how cells choose between the two strands produced from each microRNA precursor. A study published in Nucleic Acids Research reveals that this decision follows conserved, programmable ru

Tens of thousands of YouTubers are raging against YouTube’s plan to use AI to detect underage users in the US. On Tuesday, a Change.org petition rapidly neared its 50,000-signature goal, with tens of thousands hoping that with enough users protesting, the wide rollout of the AI age checks might be stopped. They fear the age checks will make it harder to access content they love while staying anonymous on the platform YouTube’s age verification system estim

Published on October 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Netflix Netflix releases on October 12 “Instadocs: AI Gone Wild,” a never-before-seen documentary about the cyberattack against Hugging Face, carried out by rogue ChatGPT. This summer, the open-source platform Hugging Face was hacked. Behind this cyberattack, there were no gangs of hackers, but an army of AI agents that had escaped all control. Following an investigation, OpenAI, the giant behind

Published on October 10, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © Layout 01net A Florida woman shared her thoughts with Claude, until she went one message too many. Detected by the machine and reviewed by humans, the threat ended up on the sheriff’s desk. In late September, a resident of Bonita Springs, Florida, reportedly wrote to Claude that she planned to open fire on the local sheriff’s office, adding the following day that she had obtained a gun. The message

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Keeping up with the latest research is vital for scientists, but given that millions of scientific papers are published every year, that can prove difficult. Artificial intelligence systems show promise for quickly synthesizing seas of information, but they still tend to make things up, or "hallucinate." For instance, when a team led by researchers at the University of Washington and The Allen Institute for AI, or Ai2, stu

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Meta launched Muse Ember, the lightest and most cost-efficient AI model from its Superintelligence Labs. The new model was developed to perform recurring tasks for AI agents that require complex reasoning.Applications include tool calls, programming subtasks, routing, data extraction, and the analysis of long documents. The model costs US$ 0.10 per million input tokens (around R$ 0.54). Meta presents Ember

@maskot1977(Ikemen Mas Kot)At the Forefront of AI Development and Code Generation ModelsAI0Posted at 2026-11-11 The three sources included in the notebook provide comprehensive and practical insights into the technological cutting edge of AI engineering and the associated changes in the business and economic structure. These can broadly be organized along two axes: “The Cutting Edge of AI Engineering (Transformations in Development Practices and Model Tech

Published on November 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Anthropic It has come to light that Anthropic has quietly updated its Claude chatbot to prevent it from copying video games. The company is seeking to protect itself against potential legal action from studios that could accuse it of intellectual property theft. Since the arrival of Claude Sonnet 5.5, everything is moving faster: this AI model does everything faster, more efficiently, and at a lo

Editor | Red PandaCainiao Flies FirstIn the past, getting a parcel to the other side of the world faster might have cost a logistics company more than $100. Today, Cainiao can cut that figure in half while achieving three-day delivery worldwide.This is powered by a new efficiency lever—AI—as well as AI spending that is growing tenfold every year.On November 5, at the AI and Embodied Intelligence Industry Cooperation Conference held at Cainiao Hong Kong Sma

Shutterstock / Futurism For years, many bosses have been adamant that employees use AI at all costs — despite research suggesting there’s little to gain from it in terms of productivity, evidence that flies in the face of the tech industry’s repeated promises of a workplace revolution brought on by the tech. But now that execs are drowning in meaningless “workslop,” they’re starting to sing a very different tune. As Business Insider reports, one CEO of a t