artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-powered software has been used to create several possible new job options for out-of-work former Prime Minister Boris Johnson - and some are very accurateForm Prime Minster Boris Johnson is on a job hunt.Having…

Consider a teenager, Jorge, who is caught possessing a large amount of marijuana by a school administrator and will be expelled if he’s reported to his parole officer. If the administrator does not report him, they’re breaking the law; if…

Workers are returning to offices – to stop AI bots taking their jobs.Keen to stand out from artificial intelligence competitors, staff are ditching working from home options in their droves. Accountancy firm PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)…

In theory, these cryptographic standards ensure that if a professional photographer snaps a photo for, say, Reuters and that photo is distributed across Reuters international news channels, both the editors commissioning the photo and…

The excitement around the London arrival of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was palpable from the queue that snaked its way around the University College London building ahead of his speech on Wednesday afternoon. Hundreds of eager-faced…

“There’s been a lot of speculation recently about the possibility of AI consciousness or self-awareness. But I wonder: Does AI have a subconscious?” —PsychobabbleDear Psychobabble, Sometime in the early 2000s, I came across an…

But its work began to look sloppy on more specific requests. Asked to write a memo on consumer preferences in Paraguay compared to Uruguay, the system incorrectly described Paraguay as less populous. It hallucinated, or made up, the meaning…

AI is likely to view humans as "scum" who need to be controlled – and could easily create its own "killing machines", a tech guru has warned.Mo Gawdat, former chief business officer for Google's research and development wing called X, fears…

“We’ve been doing things with AI for a long time as a company. And the advancements in generative AI are pretty exciting,” says Sameer Samat, vice president of product management for Android and the Google Play app store. “But these aren’t…

An LLM cannot write a cohesive, novel-length narrative from start to finish. At present, ChatGPT can produce roughly 600 words at a time, so in order to complete a novel, a human has to feed it prompts and then collage its outputs into a…