(Natural News) Shares in Alphabet, the parent company of Google, fell by 7.7 percent on Wednesday, causing it to lose a remarkable $100 billion from its market value after its new AI chatbot gave an inaccurate response to a question in a public demo this week. Google’s new AI chatbot tool, which is known as […]

(Natural News) Artur Sychov, founder and CEO of Somnium Space, has claimed that an artificial intelligence chatbot will soon allow the living to converse with people who already died. Somnium Space is a virtual reality world and open-source platform where players can buy land, build, explore and trade. In an interview with Motherboard, Sychov said […]

(Natural News) Thanks to a company called Eleven Labs (ElevenLabs.io), it is now possible to clone almost any voice in minutes, then feed that voice a text block that will be pronounced / performed in that AI voice. Remarkably, the Eleven Labs voice synthesis model is so advanced that it “reads” (pronounces) written text in […]

(Natural News) Russia has announced plans to develop a combat version of its “Marker” robotic tank, specifically to target and destroy American M1 Abrams and German Leopard 2 main battle tanks. Dmitry Rogozin, former director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, noted that the Marker unmanned ground vehicle’s (UGV) capabilities will include the ability […]

(Natural News) An expert has warned that artificial intelligence (AI) will take 20 percent of all jobs held by humans in five years. Richard DeVere, head of social engineering at Reading, England-based Ultima Business Solutions, issued the warning in an interview with the Daily Mail. His warning came amid the rising popularity of AI chatbot ChatGPT, […]

(Natural News) Joshua Browder, the founder of DoNotPay, showed in a video shared on Twitter his newly launched artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s ability to handle customer service calls on behalf of users. Browder said using an AI-generated version of Browder’s own voice, it successfully requested a refund from Wells Fargo, a San Francisco-based multinational financial […]

(Natural News) There are 13,266 McDonald’s stores in the United States as of this writing, but one in Fort Worth, Texas stands out. It is the first fully automated outlet of the giant fast-food chain. The customer can go in, order the food, get the meal and pay the bill without human interaction. Of course, […]

(Natural News) San Francisco residents bracing for the sight of fully-armed robots patrolling their streets were surprised at the news that broke out – no deployment for now. The city’s Board of Supervisors, which voted 8-3 on Nov. 29 in favor of using weaponized robots for police duties in emergency situations, walked back on its […]

(Natural News) Big Tech mogul Elon Musk recently announced that his brain chip implants should begin human trials within the next six months. During a show-and-tell event of his health tech start-up Neuralink, Musk shared updates to its brain-implant technology. He said the implantable brain-computer interfaces could restore a person’s vision, even in those who […]

(Natural News) At his Neuralink Corp.’s Fremont, Calif., headquarters this week, billionaire electric vehicle-turned-social media tycoon Elon Musk announced that his long-awaited artificial intelligence (AI) brain implants are finally ready for insertion into human bodies. Within the next six months, Musk revealed, the first human patients will begin getting injected with the coin-sized microchips, known […]