April 11, 2023 Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town Enlarge / A screenshot of the “Generative Agents” demo where 25 AI-controlled characters live out life in a town called Smallville. (credit: J.S. Park,…
April 11, 2023 Instagram creators’ Artifact app is starting to look more like Reddit Artifact, the news aggregation app from the creators of Instagram, now has some social features following its latest update. Users can now create profiles…
April 11, 2023 Everything We Spotted in The Marvels’ Totally Cosmic Trailer This morning we got our first look at The Marvels, and our first inkling of just how Kamala Khan, Monica Rambeau, and Carol Danvers…
April 11, 2023 ‘Better Drugs, Better Health’: A Human Genome Pioneer Talks About the Future of Genetics Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project officially wrapped up. It was a feat of collaborative science that took 13 years—from 1990 to 2003—and…
April 11, 2023 Elon Musk’s date for removing legacy Blue checks on Twitter surprises no one In a week in which Twitter CEO and enfant terrible Elon Musk changed his Twitter handle to something we won’t print here and removed…
April 11, 2023 ***** administration wants your input on rules for AI models like ChatGPT American officials are taking further steps to set rules for AI systems like ChatGPT. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is asking for…
April 11, 2023 ‘Thirsty’ AI: Training ChatGPT Required Enough Water to Fill a Nuclear Reactor’s Cooling Tower, Study Finds Popular large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are energy intensive, requiring massive server farms to provide enough data to train…
April 11, 2023 How Prime Video’s Dead Ringers Tells a New Kind of Horror Story David Cronenberg’s 1988 film Dead Ringers set a new standard for twisted twin tales—but Prime Video’s new series adaptation, with Rachel Weisz playing sister…
April 11, 2023 Pentagon Classified Documents Leak Linked to Discord After a batch of classified documents were leaked from the Pentagon, it appears open-source intelligence analysts have pinned the leak down to an unlikely…
April 11, 2023 Judge rejects Elizabeth Holmes’ bid for freedom while awaiting appeal A federal judge denied Holmes’s motion for release on Monday as she appealed her conviction on four counts of fraud and conspiracy, as reported…