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Update that made ChatGPT ‘dangerously’ sycophantic pulled
Tom GerkenTechnology reporterGetty ImagesOpenAI has pulled a ChatGPT update after users pointed out the chatbot was showering them with praise regardless of what they said.The firm accepted its latest version of the tool was "overly flattering", with boss Sam...
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How to Protect Your Phone While Traveling Abroad
When I travel to Asia this summer, I plan to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I’ll pack a different phone lacking my staple apps, like Instagram, Slack and Signal. It won’t even be logged in to my work...
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Chemical In Plastics Linked To 350,000 Heart Disease Deaths – Slashdot
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Hill: Daily exposure to certain chemicals used to manufacture household plastics may be connected to more than 356,000 cardiovascular-related deaths in 2018 alone, a new analysis has found. These chemicals,...
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White House-Amazon Spat Culminates in Trump Calling Bezos ‘Very Nice’
President Trump’s 100th day in office started with what seemed to be a fresh and fast-escalating spat between the White House and Amazon.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, came out swinging in her press briefing on Tuesday morning,...
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Dalma Novak’s Journey From Professor to Entrepreneur
It can be a bit of a bumpy road from leaving a secure job in academia to launching a startup based on your research. That’s what IEEE Fellow Dalma Novak experienced. An expert in developing technology to transmit microwave...
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Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent
Reddit users who were unwittingly subjected to an AI-powered experiment have hit back at scientists for conducting research on...
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Can AI-Generated Images Truly Be Considered Art?
AI generated images are now seeping into advertising, social media, entertainment, and more, thanks to models like Midjourney and DALL-E. But creating visual art with AI actually dates back decades.
Christiane Paul curates digital art at the Whitney Museum of...
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Is China Set to Dominate the Future of Fusion Energy?
In the rocky terrain of China’s Sichuan province, a massive X-shaped building is quickly rising, its crisscrossed arms stretching outward in a bold, futuristic design. From a satellite’s view, it could be just another ambitious megaproject in a country...
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Here’s how to watch LlamaCon, Meta’s first AI developer event | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta...
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House passes “Take it Down Act,” sending revenge porn bill backed by Melania Trump to president’s desk
Washington — The House passed a bipartisan bill Monday that makes it a federal crime to post real and fake sexually explicit imagery online of a person without their consent, sending the legislation that was...
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Some Afrikaners say Trump is being lied to about a “White genocide” in South Africa: “It’s not happening”
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