Don’t feed the Internet trolls! It’s easier said than done…
Researchers have discovered that online toxicity is not only consistently present regardless of platform but also does not necessarily cause people to disengage from discourse.
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Generative AI is vulnerable to malware, researchers warn
In recent years, generative AI tools have been incorporated in everything from search engines to email assistants – potentially opening the door to cyberattacks.
Scientists create a customizable circuit made from DNA
A group of researchers from Shanghai built a customizable circuit that operates entirely with DNA, a groundbreaking step towards general-purpose DNA computing.
Facebook and the echo chamber: scientists examine how social media affects political views
While social media “echo chambers” certainly exist, they may not have as large of an effect on political polarization as previously assumed.
New Tool Developed to Spot Artificial Intelligence in Academic Writing
ChatGPT is transforming work, learning, and writing. A new AI tool can accurately distinguish human academic writing from ChatGPT with 99% accuracy.
Unmasking AI with a Single Question
Are you talking to a human or a chatbot? Ask them this question to find out.
How Tay “Machine Learned” Her Way to Become a Twitter Troll
In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets that he can teach Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, enough proper English to pass for a duchess. A little over 100 years after Pygmalion’s publication, Microsoft launched a…
Man < Machine Round 2: Money siphoning no longer restricted to sleazy Wall Street bankers
The 20 USD bill’s Andrew Jackson is as worried as many computer scientists over the thought of AIs stealing our money
Not content with stealing our jobs and beating our top Go players, artificial intelligence (AI) has now turned to cleaning out our…