While the conversations they produce may seem astounding, ChatGPT, Bard and other contemporary "AI" chatbots are not magic. Rather, they are merely examples of what computer scientists call "large language models," or LLMs. Essentially, LLMs are trained to identify likely sequences of words, then generate coherent and convincing text.

AutoGPT and BabyAGI run GPT AI agents to complete complex tasks iteratively.

The Kremlin told officials involved in preparations for Russia's 2024 presidential election to stop using Apple (AAPL.O) iPhones because of concerns that the devices are vulnerable to Western intelligence agencies, the Kommersant newspaper reported.

The sudden rise and advancement of artificial intelligence systems over the last few months have brought fears of its potentially harmful effects on society. Not only might AI threaten human jobs and creativity, but smart machines' use in warfare could have catastrophic consequences. To address this danger, the first global Summit on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain (REAIM) was held last week, leading to countries signing an agreement to put the responsible use of AI higher on the political agenda.

DeepMind has developed an artificial intelligence that can solve tasks it has never seen before as fast and as accurately as humans – a possible step towards generally intelligent AI that could master an array of jobs in the real world. The AI, called Adaptive Agent or AdA, works in a 3D virtual world where it is asked to solve tasks that involve navigating, planning and manipulating objects.

Ryan Graves is a former Navy fighter pilot and Chair of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) UAP Integration & Outreach Committee (UAPIOC). The following commentary is in response to a series of recent Op-Eds published in the Wall Street Journal by columnist Holman Jenkins, who named Ryan directly in his November critique. The author’s opinions expressed here are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of The Debrief.

Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.

Classified material claims United Arab Emirates engaged in operations that ‘resemble espionage’...

There is a common trope in American movies that smart people wear glasses and attractive people do not, but does this stereotype exist in other parts of the world? A study published in Cureus suggests that in Jordan, wearing glasses can make people appear less intelligent.

Experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at Mar-a-Lago.

Former members of McDonald's "Global Intelligence Team" must testify about “social media, security, intelligence-gathering, and/or other modalities to surveil employees who have been engaged in the Fight For $15 Campaign.”

Lawmakers receiving the latest secret briefings on UFOs say national security agencies still aren’t taking seriously the reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin violating protected airspace.

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button.

Like it or not, the threat of conflict is rising. This makes it necessary for key global players to build and maintain state-of-the-art intelligence infrastructure that can operate independently.

The decentralized hacktivist group Anonymous does not take kindly to Marjorie Taylor Greene's stupidity. When they call her "one of the dumbest politicians ever," they are most likely referring to everything from her anti-vax/mask/science stance to her anti-Ukraine rhetoric to the Q-injected drivel that comes out of her mouth (or thumbs) every single day.

On Wednesday, a group associated with the collective Anonymous, called Network Battalion 65 or ‘NB65’, announced in a tweet that it had hacked into Russia’s space agency. The group added that Roscosmos and Russia “have no more control over their own Spy-Satellites.”

Ukraine's vice prime minister wrote a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook Friday asking him to pull Apple's services out of Russia. Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who is also the country's digital minister, published his letter to Cook on Twitter. The letter appealed to Cook to help "protect Ukraine" and to "stop supplying Apple services and products to the Russian Federation, including blocking access to the App Store."

Over three months, senior Biden administration officials held half a dozen urgent meetings with top Chinese officials in which the Americans presented intelligence showing Russia’s troop buildup around Ukraine and beseeched the Chinese to tell Russia not to invade, according to U.S. officials.

Throughout the past 4 million years, hominin body size has increased, with the brain growing at a disproportionate rate in relation to the rest of the body. Increasing encephalization is believed to be the main driver of the higher cognitive ability observed in mammals. Contrasting millions of years of hominin evolution, brain mass of the anatomically modern (AM) Homo has significantly decreased in the last 50,000 year.

James Cameron’s “The Terminator” was a cinematic retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for the post-industrial era. Gone was the stitched-together, emotionally conflicted monster of the original novel: Cameron forged it a new body out of hyperalloy, and gave us an unstoppable, flesh-over-metal killing machine designed for a singular purpose: human genocide.