The US Department of Defense’s research agency, DARPA, has announced that its AI algorithms can now control an actual F-16 in flight. The fighter aircraft that was first introduced in 1978 has now seemingly evolved into an autonomous plane. “In early December 2022, ACE algorithm developers uploaded their AI software Read more…
A new bill advancing through the Arkansas legislature aims to make it harder for people to access porn sites. Senate Bill 66, the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act, would require anyone in Arkansas to provide a “digitized identification card” before viewing a site that contains more Read more…
Science educator Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies. But Hossenfelder’s latest YouTube video expounds upon the sorry state of particle physics, and in the process also has some interesting sidenotes on dark matter. Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of Read more…
“The waiting time for general purpose quantum computers is getting shorter, but they are still probably decades away,” notes Security Week. But “The arrival of cryptanalytically-relevant quantum computers that will herald the cryptopocalypse will be much sooner — possibly less than a decade.” It is important to note that all Read more…
The day after Microsoft unveiled its AI-powered Bing chatbot, “a Stanford University student named Kevin Liu used a prompt injection attack to discover Bing Chat’s initial prompt, a list of statements that governs how it interacts with people who use the service.” By asking Bing Chat to “Ignore previous instructions” Read more…
A new pill could help alleviate constipation by delivering vibrations that “help kickstart the body’s nature processes for getting rid of waste,” reports Gizmodo. Vibrant still comes in the form of a pill, but before swallowing (around bedtime each night), it first needs to be activated by inserting it into Read more…
Some clever users have found a way to bypass ChatGPT’s strict list of no-talk subjects, tricking it into adopting a new persona, DAN, which stands for “Do Anything Now.” As DAN, ChatGPT can now blow past the restrictions on “appropriate topics” to deliver amusing and upsetting responses. For the most Read more…