Stories by beardyw

US startup advertises 'AI bully' role to test patience of leading chatbots

A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

Water company wasted $200k on bad answers from an AI so built slop filtering

Age verification isn't sage verification inside OSes: California's legal lunacy

A 100-year-old theory might explain what's wrong with quantum mechanics

Those who 'circle back' and 'synergize' also tend to be crap at their jobs

Identical twins on trial: can DNA testing tell them apart?

Artificial intelligence-associated delusions and large language models

Pi Day

The History of Soap

Openreach trials 'pioneering' fibre-optic water leak detection

Mathematicians find one pi formula to rule them all

Pokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized

Iran-linked cyber crew claims hit on US med-tech firm

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It's Full of Alcohol

Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns

AI chooses nuclear escalation in 95% of simulated crises

Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters

US contractor's son arrested over alleged $46M crypto theft from US Marshals

California's Problematic Attempt to Add Age-Verification to Software

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