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Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a weird trick. In a new investigation, reporters from Japan's Nikkei Asia found more than a dozen academic papers that contained invisible prompts meant to trick AI review tools into giving ...

12 hours ago

Futurism

Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

Futurism

New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down

Since the 1970s, the US Government has sold the public a rather simple explanation for drug addiction, now clinically called substance abuse disorder: the myth of the gateway drug. The gateway drug — usually weed, alcohol, tobacco, or inhalants — refers to the theory that the earlier a child starts ...

13 hours ago

Futurism

New Study Flips Everything We Know About Addiction Upside Down

Futurism

Woman Says Zuckerberg's AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, is polluting her water. As the BBC reports, the resident, Beverly Morris, believes the construction of the tech giant's data center disrupted her private water well, causing a buildup ...

14 hours ago

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Woman Says Zuckerberg's AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

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Clever Jailbreak Makes ChatGPT Give Away Pirated Windows Activation Keys

A white hat hacker has discovered a clever way to force ChatGPT into giving up Windows product keys, a lengthy string of numbers and letters that are used to activate copies of Microsoft's widely used operating system. As The Register reports, 0DIN AI bug bounty platform product manager Marco Figueroa ...

16 hours ago

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Clever Jailbreak Makes ChatGPT Give Away Pirated Windows Activation Keys

Futurism

OpenAI Is About to Release an AI Web Browser

Try not to get too excited, but OpenAI is on the verge of releasing its own AI-powered web browser, Reuters reports. Expected to launch in the coming weeks, the browser is being released with audacious ambitions. Per the reporting, it's meant to challenge Google Chrome's absurd market dominance, with ...

17 hours ago

Futurism

OpenAI Is About to Release an AI Web Browser

Futurism

Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other emotive, anthropomorphic chatbots — and health experts are taking notice. In a recent CBC segment about AI-tied psychosis, primary care physician and CBC contributor Dr. Peter Lin explained that ...

18 hours ago

Futurism

Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

WIRED Science

Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now

Patients and doctors are turning to AI for diagnoses and treatment recommendations, often with stellar results, but problems arise when experts and algorithms disagree.

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WIRED Science

Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now

WIRED Science

Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this complex disease will likely need multiple complementary treatments.

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WIRED Science

Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice

WIRED Science

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

A polo legend and a businessman joined forces to copy the player’s greatest horse. But with a single clone worth $800,000, some technologies are a breeding ground for betrayal.

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WIRED Science

Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

WIRED Science

China Has Attempted What Might Be the First-Ever Orbital Refueling of a Satellite

The SJ-21 and SJ-25 satellites “merged” on July 2 and have remained together since then.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

China Has Attempted What Might Be the First-Ever Orbital Refueling of a Satellite

WIRED Science

A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of conventional astronomy theory, and is making experts reconsider conventional notions of planet formation.

2 days ago

WIRED Science

A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory

Singularity HUB

This AI Gives You Power Over Your Data

With FlexOlmo, people can train AI without handing over their data. They can even remove their contribution after the model is complete. The post This AI Gives You Power Over Your Data appeared first on SingularityHub.

14 hours ago

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This AI Gives You Power Over Your Data

Singularity HUB

A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley

Portable, reusable, and affordable, the device is the latest in technologies aiming to expand access to drinking water. The post A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley appeared first on SingularityHub.

1 day ago

Singularity HUB

A New Device Pulls Water From Thin Air—Even in Death Valley

New York Times Science

Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

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New York Times Science

Earth Is Spinning Faster, Making Some Summer Days Shorter

New York Times Science

How Much of Our ‘Math, Revealed’ Series Did You Retain? Try This Quiz.

Our series reveals the math hidden in familiar places. How much do you know about taxicab geometry, triangular numbers, the golden ratio and more?

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New York Times Science

How Much of Our ‘Math, Revealed’ Series Did You Retain? Try This Quiz.

New York Times Science

This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

While plants often have mutually beneficial relationships with insects, a tuber in Fiji grows separate compartments for multiple ant species.

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New York Times Science

This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants

New York Times Science

How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

How Elephants Say They Like Them Apples

New York Times Science

A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

2 days ago

New York Times Science

A 37,000-Year Chronicle of What Once Ailed Us

New York Times Science

Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure

Ben Jealous, who joined the environmental group in 2023, has clashed with some employees and the organization’s union.

10 hours ago

New York Times Science

Ben Jealous, Sierra Club’s Executive Director, on Leave After Rocky Tenure

National Science Foundation

Podcast: Training artificial intelligence

Mingyi Hong, a professor at the University of Minnesota and NSF-funded researcher, discusses AI reinforcement learning strategies and the challenges of training experts. {"preview_thumbnail":"/s3/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video…

2 days ago

National Science Foundation

Podcast: Training artificial intelligence

National Science Foundation

NSF Graduate Research Fellow contribution to flight could aid disaster relief

With the devastating hurricanes that swept the southeastern United States at the end of 2024, new and better ways to get critical supplies to disaster zones and rural areas are essential. U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow…

2 days ago

National Science Foundation

NSF Graduate Research Fellow contribution to flight could aid disaster relief