The patient was a 39-year-old woman who had come to the emergency department of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Her left knee had… Read More »A mystery in the ER? ask Dr. Chatbot for a diagnosis.
Enlarge / Water and sediment flow from the melting edge of the Greenland ice sheet. About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free.… Read More »Long-forgotten frozen soil monster offers a warning for the future
This week, the White House announced it had received “voluntary commitments” from seven leading AI companies to manage the risks of artificial intelligence. Getting the… Read More »How do White House AI pledges stack up?
Enlarge / Artistic illustration of Amazon’s Kuiper satellite processing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Within a few years, Amazon hopes to build and launch… Read More »Amazon is getting ready to launch many broadband satellites
Seven leading AI companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards for the development of the technology, the White House announced Friday, pledging… Read More »Meta, Google and AI companies agree security measures at Biden meeting
Enlarge / An Astranis satellite is seen in the company’s factory. Astranis Astranis, a company that aims to provide internet connectivity from geostationary space, said… Read More »A promising internet satellite is rendered useless by power problems
Can the online encyclopedia help teach AI chatbots to get their facts right – without destroying themselves in the process?
Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve officially launched FedNow, a new system that has been rolled out to 35 early adopting banks and credit unions for… Read More »Banks that serve as guinea pigs for the Federal Reserve’s instant payment system
Anyone tempted by AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard – wow, they can write essays and recipes! — eventually encounters what are known as hallucinations,… Read More »How to send AI chatbots to make them more useful
Enlarge / Bottles of MMS, the bleaching product that Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was ordered to stop selling. A Florida father and… Read More »The “Church of Bleach” family, guilty on all counts, plans to appeal
Kevin Mitnick, who at the dawn of widespread Internet use in the mid-1990s became the nation’s archetypal computer hacker—obsessive but smart, shy but mischievous, and… Read More »Kevin Mitnick, hacker who escaped authorities, is dead at age 59
Reddit is publicly extending an olive branch to the moderator community it has been largely outraged over the past few weeks. In a post on… Read More »No excuses, as Reddit is half-heartedly trying to mend ties with moderators
In a cavernous room this week in a one-story building in Santa Clara, California, six-and-a-half-foot tall machines whirred behind white cabinets. The machines formed a… Read More »An AI supercomputer comes to life, powered by giant computer chips
The internet is dangerous, so what if you just don’t use it? That’s the somewhat ironic recommendation that Google, one of the world’s largest internet… Read More »Google’s new security pilot program will ban employees’ Internet access
Three months before the cryptocurrency market imploded last year, Caroline Ellison, the 27-year-old CEO of crypto hedge fund Alameda Research, was wracked with self-doubt. “I… Read More »Caroline Ellison writes about ex-crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried
