Technology/Science
Developers Working to Determine if AI Chatbot Falsehoods Are Fixable
Spend enough time with ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots and it doesn't take long for them to spout falsehoods. Described as hallucination, confabulation or just plain making things ...
Study: Up to 20% of Our Time Wasted on Computer Problems
Though computers have evolved rapidly, users waste up to 20 percent of their time dealing with computer issues, according to a new study released by the University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science ...
New NOAA Hurricane Model Launched
A new hurricane model released last month by NOAA's National Hurricane Center, a division of the National Weather Service, has proved better at predicting rapid intensification. The Hurricane ...
Race Toward ‘Autonomous’ AI Digital Assistants Grows
Around a decade after virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa burst onto the scene, a new wave of AI helpers with greater autonomy is raising the stakes, powered by the latest version of the ...
Automated Weather Insurance Could Offer Help in an Increasingly Hot World
Carlos José Báez experienced the full brunt of Hurricane Maria when it made landfall in Puerto Rico as a catastrophic storm in 2017.
Ransomware Criminals are Dumping Kids` Private Files Online After School Hacks
The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student sexual assaults, psychiatric ...
Robots Promise They Won’t Steal Jobs, Rebel Against Humans
Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and that they would not steal humans' jobs or rebel against us. But in the world's ...
The ‘New Abnormal’ of Wildfires and Smoky Skies Beyond California
It was a smell that invoked a memory—both for Emily Kuchlbauer in North Carolina and Ryan Bomba in Chicago. It was smoke from wildfires, the odor of an increasingly hot and occasionally on-fire ...