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Apple Update to Stop Your iPhone's 'Hallucinations'

AI feature temporarily disabled after it began to generate fake news headlines, summaries

(Newser) - If you've seen some strange headlines emerge from your iPhone this year, it wasn't your imagination. Apple has now made a "rare admission of product failure" after its built-in AI software began generating "hallucinations" about current events and churning out false summaries of headlines to consumers,...

Woman Horribly Duped by an AI-Generated Brad Pitt

The first rule of dating 'Brad Pitt' is don't send him $855K because it's not really him

(Newser) - There's getting weak-kneed at the sight of Brad Pitt on the silver screen, and then there's falling hopelessly in love with Brad Pitt, conducting a yearlong online romance, and sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to the down-on-his-luck actor for cancer treatment. As the BBC reports, a Frenchwoman...

A Growing Problem: Bogus Arrests Over Facial Recognition

Washington Post investigation finds that police are increasingly relying on the AI software

(Newser) - As more police departments across the US adopt facial-recognition technology, a Washington Post investigation finds that wrongful arrests are a growing problem. The story uncovers eight such bogus arrests, but warns they "are probably a small sample of the problem" because most departments are not required to disclose when...

AI's Newest Victims: Lace-Makers
AI's Newest Victims:
Lace-Makers
Jan 5, 2025 9:30 AM CST

AI's Newest Victims: Lace-Makers

'Grifters' have started to infiltrate this crafty community

(Newser) - Lace-makers of the world, unite—against artificial intelligence-produced books that are now marring the centuries-old art. Writing for 404 Media , Samantha Cole reports on how veterans in the lace craft are "raising the alarm on AI grifting," with a plethora of phony books—many of them targeting beginners—...

Schools Find Their First Niche for AI Tools

More are using artificial intelligence to help students with dyslexia, other challenges

(Newser) - Schools everywhere have been wrestling with how and where to incorporate artificial intelligence, but many are fast-tracking applications for students with disabilities, reports the AP . Its story draws on the example of 14-year-old girl Makenzie Gilkison, a student with dyslexia in Indianapolis who can finally keep up with her peers...

At This School, Students Will Be Taught by AI, Not Teachers

Experts warn of 'big risk' that charter school in Arizona will be taking

(Newser) - A new charter school in Arizona is making headlines not just because of its short daily regimen—there won't be any teachers, as artificial intelligence will be doing the instructional lifting. Gizmodo reports that on Monday, the state's Board for Charter Schools greenlit an application from Unbound Academy...

OpenAI Employee Turned Whistleblower Found Dead

Suchir Balaji's death has been ruled a suicide

(Newser) - Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher who ultimately became a whistleblower speaking out against the company, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment Nov. 26. His death has been ruled a suicide. Three months ago, Balaji, 26, accused OpenAI of violating US copyright law, reports the Mercury News , one...

New Apple AI Tool Botches a Serious News Headline

Notification on phones incorrectly stated that shooting suspect Luigi Mangione shot himself

(Newser) - Some Apple customers might be under the false impression that CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione shot himself—because their iPhones told them so. It seems that a new artificial intelligence tool botched a headline notification sent to people, reports Gizmodo . The errant notification under the BBC logo read: "Luigi...

Exxon 'Getting Into the Power Business'

Company plans to create a power plant to supply data centers

(Newser) - Exxon Mobil currently runs gas power plants in Texas, Louisiana, and Illinois to power its own operations. The plant it's planning next will be its first to supply electricity to others: specifically, data centers, and soon. The New York Times reports America's biggest oil and gas company is...

Suit: Chatbot Subjected Girl to 2 Years of Sexual Content

A Character.AI bot also hinted to a Texas teen that he should kill his parents, per a new complaint

(Newser) - Two families are suing the Google-backed Character.AI, claiming the latter company's chatbots abused their kids and knowingly exposed the minors to "a technology they knew to be dangerous and unsafe." Per the Washington Post , the suit filed Tuesday in Texas involves a 17-year-old boy identified simply...

China Goes After Nvidia in Antitrust Probe

US microchip company's shares dip, amid investigation on its 2019 acquisition of Mellanox

(Newser) - Shares of Nvidia slid early Monday after China said it's investigating the high-flying US microchip company over suspected violations of Chinese anti-monopoly laws. In a brief press release with few details, Chinese regulators appear to be focusing on Nvidia's $6.9 billion acquisition of network and data transmission...

Google DeepMind 'Opens New Front' in Weather Forecasts

GenCast AI system consistently outperforms model seen as world's best, researchers say

(Newser) - Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence research lab says its new weather forecasting program is so accurate it could literally be a lifesaver. In a study published in the journal Nature , DeepMind researchers say the GenCast model opens "a new front in weather forecasting," with 15-day forecasts more accurate...

Meta to Build Massive AI Data Center in Rural Louisiana

The $10B facility will be the company's largest AI data center to date

(Newser) - The largest artificial intelligence data center ever built by Facebook's parent company Meta is coming to northeast Louisiana, bringing hopes that the $10 billion facility will transform an economically neglected corner of the state, reports the AP . Congressional leaders and local representatives from across the political spectrum heralded the...

Pharma Industry Hopes AI Can Help Develop New Drugs

Drug development is still costly and takes a long time—but AI could change that

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence is changing the way companies do business—helping programmers write code and fielding customer service calls with chatbots. But the pharmaceutical industry is still waiting to see whether AI can tackle its biggest challenge: finding faster, cheaper ways to develop new drugs. Despite billions poured into research, new...

This Fake 'Granny' Exists Solely to Foil Phone Scammers

British company O2 creates 'Daisy' chatbot to waste fraudsters' time on the phone

(Newser) - Daisy Harris sounds like a phone scammer's dream target. But as Daisy herself says , she is, in reality, their "worst nightmare." Daisy, as it turns out, isn't real, explains CNN . She's a figment of artificial intelligence created by the British mobile phone company O2. The...

Canadian News Groups File Complaint Against OpenAI

Publishers don't appreciate their content being used to train ChatGPT generative AI system

(Newser) - A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including the Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia, and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial-intelligence system. The outlets said in a joint statement Friday that OpenAI regularly breaches copyright by scraping large...

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
ChatGPT Defeated
Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
NEW STUDY
Nov 18, 2024 12:12 PM CST

ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness

Docs who used ChatGPT to diagnose didn't fare better than those without—but the bots alone won

(Newser) - Over the summer, researchers gave a failing grade to artificial intelligence when it comes to diagnosing illnesses, finding that a chatbot that read 150 case studies diagnosed the correct condition less than 50% of the time. "ChatGPT in its current form is not accurate as a diagnostic tool,"...

AI Chatbot Response: 'Human ... Please Die'

Google's Gemini tool issues a creepy request to user in Michigan

(Newser) - Google's artificial intelligence chatbot apparently got tired of its conversation with a mere mortal and issued the following directive, reports CBS News :
  • "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste
...

Wendy's Bots Are Keeping Tabs on Customer Demand

Fast-food chain is using artificial intelligence from Palantir to keep its supply chain flowing

(Newser) - Wendy's carries out some creative promotions to compete with larger competitors like McDonald's. Now, Bloomberg reports that the fast-food chain is tapping into artificial intelligence from Palantir Technologies to keep an eye out for shortages of menu items before they happen, including this summer's wildly popular $1...

Bees Complicate Meta's Nuclear-Powered AI Plans

Sources tell Financial Time s that rare bees were found at proposed site near reactor

(Newser) - Meta, like rivals including Microsoft and Amazon, has been seeking to use nuclear power to meet the vast power demands of its artificial intelligence projects, but the quest has been complicated by bees. The company had planned to build an AI data center near an unspecified nuclear plant in the...

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