FOR READERS & WRITERS: Loving an AI?
FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Jim Comer: Will people will stop having “real” relationships if AIs become so sophisticated at learning that they can get … Read more
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ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: The Shoreless Sea, by J. Scott Coatsworth
QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci fi book out, the final book in his Liminal Sky trilogy: “The Shoreless Sea.” And books one and two are on … Read more
How Will Deepfake AIs Change Our World?
Of all the scary powers of the internet, it’s ability to trick the unsuspecting might be the most frightening. Clickbait, photoshopped pictures and false news are some of the worst … Read more
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: An AI Created a Model of Our Universe. We Have No Idea How it Works (But it Does)
The first-ever artificial intelligence simulation of the universe seems to work like the real thing — and is almost as mysterious. Researchers reported the new simulation June 24 in the … Read more
An AI Animates the Mona Lisa, and It’s freaky – Live Science
The enigmatic, painted smile of the “Mona Lisa” is known around the world, but that famous face recently displayed a startling new range of expressions, courtesy of artificial intelligence (AI). In a … Read more
SCIENCE: AI Is Creepy-Good at predicting Early Death
Medical researchers have unlocked an unsettling ability in artificial intelligence (AI): predicting a person’s early death. Scientists recently trained an AI system to evaluate a decade of general health data … Read more
SCIENCE: AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos
Artificial intelligence (AI) recently tried to generate cat photos from scratch, and the results were cat-astrophic. This particular neural network (a type of AI modeled after the workings of the … Read more
FOR WRITERS: I’m In Love With an AI
FOR WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Tam Ames: Could you have a romance between a human and software? Using virtual technology to have sex or communicate, but no … Read more
AI Can Now Read Your Mind (Sort Of)
Neuroscientists are teaching computers to read words straight out of people’s brains. Kelly Servick, writing for Science, reported this week on three papers posted to the preprint server bioRxiv in … Read more
TECH: How Close Are We to 2001’s AI Future?
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Movie audiences first heard these calmly intoned and ominous words in 1968, spoken by a spaceship’s intelligent computer in the science-fiction … Read more