“The first drug fully generated by artificial intelligence entered clinical trials with human patients this week,” reports CNBC:

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based biotech startup with more than $400 million in funding, created the drug, INS018_055,…

“The first drug fully generated by artificial intelligence entered clinical trials with human patients this week,” reports CNBC:

Insilico Medicine, a Hong Kong-based biotech startup with more than $400 million in funding, created the drug, INS018_055,…

“A developer brought Clippy back from the dead, giving it new AI powers,” writes BGR.

“This unofficial version of Clippy will bring ChatGPT to your computer in the form of Microsoft’s infamous Office assistant.”

You can take advantage of FireCube’s …

Rolling Stone reports:

Over 100 artists including Rage Against the Machine co-founders Tom Morello and Zack de la Rocha, along with Boots Riley and Speedy Ortiz, have announced that they are boycotting any concert venue that uses facial recognition t…

Futurism reports:

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, [the Onion], and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites… In an email to staf…

The New York Times tells the story of Simon Mackenzie, a security officer at a U.K. discount store uploading security camera footage of shoplifters into a facial recognition program called Facewatch. “The next time those people enter any shop within a …

Required Snark shares a report from Tom’s Hardware: A group of Chinese scientists has published (PDF) a paper titled “Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI.” The paper details the researchers’ work in designing a new indust…

Valve has reportedly started banning Steam games featuring AI-created art assets, unless developers can prove they have rights to the IP used in the data set that trained the AI to create them. From a report: In a Reddit post spotted by games industry …

AI software and voice cloners simulate distracted saps willing to stay on the phone forever — or until callers finally give up. From a report: Complaints about unwanted telephone calls are “far-and-away the largest category of consumer complaints to t…