(Albuquerque, NM) A Tesla Model S owned by Lalo Salamanca, resident of the sprawling metropolitan area around Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the latest owner of a vehicle from that manufacturer to report extremely unusual behavior that borders on downri...
No longer mere fodder for sci-fi novels and futuristic movie odysseys, artificial intelligence is a present-day reality, as demonstrated by 38-year-old Ben Higgins of Nashville, Tennessee. "I'm not actually smart at all," said Higgins, "but I've l...
Dr. Ethan Holliston, pastor of the Blind Faith Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, recently spoke out against artificial and natural intelligence, both of which he says threaten the very fabric of our modern-day society. "Did you know these AI rob...
Various AI systems have been shown to write amazingly believable fake news, but in a survey people overwhelmingly believe The Spoof website can outperform the fastest AI. "I've read tons of shit The Spoof puked out and I'm telling you, nothing cou...
A self-driving car has reportedly struck a moon-walking pedestrian this morning in San Francisco. Speaking on behalf of Testa Motors, Noel Skum stated that the computers in current self-driving cars have difficulty determining the direction of tr...
Many have heard of DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence company Google acquired in 2014. The DeepMind technology made headlines when after only a few hours of exposure to the ancient chinese board game Go, it not only learned to play the ga...
Like many auto manufacturers, BMW has been actively researching technologies that will, in the not too distant future, enable cars to drive themselves. In an exclusive Spoof News interview, Chief Engineer Max Brennstoff outlined some of the challenges that his team has encountered. "We failed to anticipate how difficult it would be to program even the most sophisticated computers available tod...
For the second time in the twenty-four months, androids made by Brit Android Industries (BAI) - the UK's largest android supplier - have been affected by a sinister program virus. Thousands of household androids have been reported as faulty, and as s...
The Turing Test is a test to see if a computer has reached the required level of sophistication to fool a panel of judges that they are talking to a human, instead of a computer. No computer programme has yet managed to convince a quorum of judges th...
Jeffrey Bezos is giggling his head off, laughing all the way to the headlines. First the Amazon CO got sensational global coverage of his absurd yet adorable (yet rather creepy) plan to have millions of packages delivered "right to your porch" by dro...
After a meeting at the World Technology Conference in Milan, mobile cell phone companies are urging customers to stop using the phrase 'smart phone' to describe touch screen phones. "These phones are pretty smart," said Nokia boss, Samuel Sung. "H...
The Curiosity Rover died yesterday while chasing an unidentified particle on Mars, the National Aeronautic and Space Agency reports. Physicists have not yet classified the particle that killed Curiosity, but photos NASA received shortly before he...
A new report by the University of Oxbridge has tested ordinary Britons in a shopping centre to see if they can manage to fool the Turing test. 70% could not, and appeared indistinguishable from a robot programmed to mimic the simple mindless chatter...
Evolutionary based traffic lights will be rolled out across London after a successful trial in Chipping Norton. The new lights take in information from road sensors, traffic monitors and each other to constantly tweak the priorities and patterns o...
Programmers up in the Alan Turing Institute for Computing (ATIC) have pipped developers down in the German Academy of Random Algorithmic Gibberish Engineers (GARAGE) to create an artificial intelligence that can create artificial intelligence. "Th...
TOKYO - After 77mn identities of PlayStation Network (PSN) users was stolen, including physical addresses, names, IP addresses, ages, and passwords, Sony got right onto finding out who hacked into one of the largest gaming networks. Sony had taken...
IBM is at it again. But this time their target for domination isn't aimed at nerdy trivia buffs or intimidating chess masters, its electronic jaws are chomping at the bit to take a megabyte out of sweet innocent little children. The big story in...
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