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What We Know About This Viral 'Snake Cat' Image

Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
March 15, 2023 There is no proof that "serpens catus" is a real animal.
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Will Any Content Uploaded to Discord Be Fed to an AI?

Written by:
Izz Scott LaMagdeleine
March 10, 2023 Discord did change its privacy policy in early 2023.
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Did Facebook Shut Down an AI Experiment Because Chatbots Developed Their Own Language?

Written by:
David Emery
Aug. 1, 2017 Facebook's artificial intelligence scientists were purportedly dismayed when the bots they creat ...
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Watch: MIT's 'Mini Cheetah' Robot Runs at Its Fastest Speed Recorded Yet

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Madison Dapcevich
March 16, 2022 The four-legged robot can adapt to its environment and learn from obstacles.
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Did Four AI Robots Kill 29 Scientists in Japan?

Written by:
Dan Evon
Dec. 19, 2018 The claim came from a UFOlogist -- and, yes, it does sound like something from a movie.
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Did Saudi Arabia Behead Its First Robot Citizen?

Written by:
Dan MacGuill
Nov. 13, 2017 A satirical web site fooled some readers with a fabrication based on a recent international news ...
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Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?

Written by:
David Emery
April 25, 2017 A philosophical notion called the "simulation hypothesis," said to be growing in popularity in h ...
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Robots with Guns: The Rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems

Written by:
David Emery
April 21, 2017 An August 2017 letter to the U.N. signed by Elon Musk and other tech luminaries called autonomou ...
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The Saga of Twitter Bot Tay

Written by:
Brooke Binkowski
March 25, 2016 A Microsoft experiment with AI to research "conversational understanding" on social media quickl ...
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