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How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intelligent Art When Wired heard that Christopher Nolan and his wife were planning to make a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we were perplexed. We know that he loves science fiction just like us, and he has a real love of the sciences, but we had…

ChatGPT opportunists and grifters are hard at work in China David and his wife experiment with text-to-speech, which involves teaching ChatGPT to write long, complex sentences with lots of bullet points. They use a Taobao product description as their starting point. Then they ask ChatG PT to generate an outline with a few bullet points,…

The Military’s Next Frontier: Your Work Computer Spying on employees is the next frontier of military AI. According to Greene, it may be hard to imagine that you are the target of spycraft, but spying on employees is the next Frontier of Military AI. Using data collected through subscription services like Spark, your boss may…

AI Boom Didn’t Kill Jobs. Feel Better? If ChatGPT and other generative AI technologies like it live up to even a tenth of the hype surrounding them, then wide-scale job losses might seem inevitable. Even if you aren’t one of those skilled workers, however, the arrival of new technology might be a problem. According to…

ChamelDoH: A New Linux Backdoor Utilizing DNS-over- The threat actor known as ChamelGang has been observed using a previously undocumented implant to backdoor Linux systems, marking a new expansion of the threat actor’s capabilities. The malware, dubbed ChamelDoH by Stairwell, is a C++-based tool for communicating via DNS-over-HTTPS tunneling. Its principle of operation is unusual:…

The Worst Part of the AI Hype Cycle This is the worst part of the AI hype cycle. The song is set for release later this year and comes from vocals Lennon recorded on an old demo. Based on how McCartney described the process, it sounded like the AI involved simply cleaned up some rough…

How to Love AI and Party Like a 6-Year-Old The 71-year-old Kelly turns 6 today and has a new book out, Excellent Advice for Living, which attempts to boil down all of his life’s lessons into a series of several hundred aphorisms. In one gulp, you can discover a set of themes to Kelly’s thought…

Cybercrime Underground Activities Require a New Approach to Cybersecurity Cybersixgill releases an annual report on the state of the cybercrime underground. The report’s findings include: trends in credit card fraud, observations about cryptocurrency, developments in cryptocurrency, and the rise of cybercriminal ‘as-a-service’ activities.1 — Credit card fraud is on the declineCredit card fraud has been…

Google sues individual for allegedly creating a fake business and leaving fake reviews. Google is suing an alleged scammer for running an elaborate scheme to flood its search product with fake businesses and reviews. Over the last two years, Google says the defendants created over 350 fake business profiles that received at least 14,000 fake…

Chatbot Mercedes-Benz Tests Complex Questions While on the Road Mercedes-Benz is beta-testing ChatGPT as a voice assistant in its cars. The company claims that the partnership will offer expanded task capability to Mercedes-Benz drivers, allowing them to ask complex questions and discuss recipes. Does that sound useful, or like another distraction on the road? We…