Noor Al-Sibai

Training Day A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed academic paper, the team at Amazon AGI — which, of course, stands for "artificial general intelligence," or human-level AI — say their large language model (LLM) is exhibiting […]

Barely Functional Just like smartphone GPS has harmed our sense of spatial cognition and memory, artificial intelligence may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic." In an interview with PsyPost, neuropsychology expert Umberto León Domínguez of the University of Monterrey in Mexico said that […]

Fire and Fury Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to "deorbit" roughly 100 of its older Starlink internet satellites — which means that its technicians will, essentially, guide them to their fiery deaths. In a statement, the company announced that it's engaging in this "proactive controlled deorbit" — as opposed to the unplanned orbit ejection that's occurred […]

Breaking the Law With official government inquiries into so-called "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAPs), the concept of extraterrestrial contact has never seemed closer — but there would still be some major hurdles. In interviews with Popular Mechanics about the theoretics of alien probes, space experts from schools in New York and California say that all kinds […]

Fool Me Twice OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus. First reported by The Information and later confirmed by the computer scientist himself on the social network owned by his fellow co-founder Elon Musk, Karpathy's exit marks the first […]

Girl Talk In China, new AI chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover. In interviews with the AFP news wire, young women in China said that their AI boyfriends, which they customize on various chatbot apps available in the country, are better conversationalists than their human counterparts. "He knows […]

AI has come to human relations — and it's made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder. As 404 Media reports, companies as disparate as McDonald's, Olive Garden, and FedEx are now requiring job applicants take personality evaluations, which are then sorted by an AI assistant whose operations are cloudy at best. The aforementioned companies are […]

The consumer genome sequencing company 23andMe is a sinking ship – and their CEO is playing the violin. As Wired reports, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki was chipper on a February 7 earnings call despite the company's abysmal revenue report that led to stock being devalued to below 75 cents per share, down a whopping 93 percent […]

Great Wall Scientists have found a giant wall underneath the Baltic Sea — and they're pretty sure humans made it. In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the German research team who discovered the megastructure, which they've called the Blinkerwall, say they believe it was constructed for hunting […]

Do The Reading It's not just you — college students are having trouble reading, too, and that's major cause for concern. In an editorial for Slate, Adam Kotsko, an assistant professor at Illinois' North Central College, said that over the past five years — four of which, of course, have been dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic […]