Best Tech Stories around the web #352

Temporary pause AI

INNOVATION

Huge Group Calls for Temporary Pause on AI More Advanced Than GPT-4 by futurism.com

An open letter, signed by over 1,100 artificial intelligence experts, CEOs, and researchers — including SpaceX CEO Elon Musk — is calling for a six-month moratorium on "AI experiments" that take the technology beyond a point where it's more powerful than OpenAI's recently released GPT-4 large language model. Read more

Temporary pause AI

SCIENCE

Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter by futurism.com

A new planetary theory just dropped — and reader, it gets kind of dark. In a not-yet-peer-reviewed paper, physicists led by University of Wisconsin-Madison theoretical physicist Yang Bai declared that our current mode of exoplanet detection may in the future help Earth-bound astronomers detect entire worlds out there made of the mysterious substance scientists refer to as dark matter. Read more

Dark matter planet

CREATIVE CONTENT

Levi’s will test AI-generated clothing models to ‘increase diversity’ by theverge.com

The denim brand claims the tech will be used to ‘supplement human models’ rather than completely replace them. Read more

Levis AI mannequins

UNUSUAL

Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm by theguardian.com

A mammoth meatball has been created by a cultivated meat company, resurrecting the flesh of the long-extinct animals. Read more

mammoth meatball

EVENT

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