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NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe may get a new lease on life thanks to an unexpected download from one of its onboard computers. After months of sending back gibberish instead of collected data, the craft may have provided a clue to its salvation.Launched in 1977 from the Kennedy Space Cater in Florida, Voyager 1, along with its sister craft Voyager 2, are the longest-lived. active, nonpassive spacecraft in existence. They are also part of an elite fleet of five probes that are on trajectories that will take them out of…

Don’t worry—the rat dck can no longer hurt you. The open-access paper that contained bizarre, AI-generated imagery of rat genitalia and gibberish graphics has been retracted by its publisher, which said that the study authors violated the journal’s guidelines.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedPublished in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, the study’s text discussed the function of stem cells associated with rat testes. But the subject matter is not what captured attention. The study authors…

The children and parents of Glasgow had the opportunity to be part of an “immersive experience” of being transported into the world of Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. But instead of being “in a world of pure imagination,” attendees allegedly felt they were inside a “meth lab.” As if the Roald Dahl movie adaptation event wasn’t disaster enough, the actor who played Willy Wonka in Glasgow is going viral reading “AI generated gibberish” he had to say at the event.If you remember The Chocolate Room scene from Willy Wonka…

ChatGPT goes colorfully crazy. Screenshot by Steven Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNETWe all know that OpenAI's ChatGPT can make mistakes. They're called hallucinations, although I prefer to call them lies or blunders. But in a peculiar turn of events this Tuesday, ChatGPT began to really lose it. Users started to report bizarre and erratic responses from everyone's favorite AI assistant.  Also: 8 ways to reduce ChatGPT hallucinationsAs one person on Twitter put it, "ChatGPT is going full-on Finnegans Wake!" Or, as another less…

This week, the scientific journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators.Like It or Not, Your Doctor Will Use AI | AI UnlockedThe open-access paper explores the relationship between stem cells in mammalian testes and a signaling pathway responsible for mediating inflammation and cancer in cells. The paper’s written content does not appear to be bogus, but its most eye-popping aspects are not in the research…

NASA’s iconic space probe is having trouble communicating with its home planet due to a computer glitch, forcing engineers to resort to decades-old manuals to come up with a way to fix the 46-year-old mission.Google’s AI Isn’t a Gimmick, It’s the Future | AI UnlockedLaunched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away from Earth. The spacecraft has been exploring the outer regions of the solar system, but it is recently unable to send back any science or engineering data due to an…

Meta is adding a new “voice mode” to Horizon Worlds that garbles any voice chat coming from non-friends on the VR social platform, the company has announced. By default you’ll still hear all nearby users at the same volume but turning on the “garble voices” toggle will replace them with “unintelligible, friendly sounds.” The feature will roll out in the coming weeks, according to Meta. According to a screenshot of the toggle shared by Meta, the feature can be used to make users “feel more comfortable or safe.” It…

A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) models can produce "creative" images on-demand based on a text prompt. The likes of Imagen, MidJourney, and DALL-E 2 are beginning to change the way creative content is made with implications for copyright and intellectual property.  While the output of these models is often striking, it's hard to know exactly how they produce their results. Last week, researchers in the US made the intriguing claim that the DALL-E 2 model might have invented its own secret language to…