First, artificial intelligence (AI) came for our jobs. Now, it’s coming for our beauty standards by way of AI “content creators.” Solely digital renderings and …
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Can Artificial Intelligence and Human Craft Peacefully Coexist in Fashion?
Craftsmanship and exquisite materials are two major selling points for luxury goods, so it was perhaps a little surprising last week to see Louis Vuitton …
‘Huge egos are in play’: behind the firing and rehiring of OpenAI’s Sam Altman | Artificial intelligence (AI)
OpenAI’s messy firing and re-hiring of its powerful chief executive this week shocked the tech world. But the power struggle has implications beyond the company’s …
Five takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Rishi Sunak has hailed this week’s artificial intelligence summit as a diplomatic breakthrough after it produced an international declaration to address risks with the technology. …
Recruitment by robot: how AI is changing the way Australians get jobs | Artificial intelligence (AI)
When Anisa* graduated from her second degree, she felt “fairly confident” that her postgraduate studies, double-major undergraduate degree and years spent balancing two volunteering roles …
Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’ | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Recent advances such as Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot have awakened the world to how sophisticated artificial intelligence has become and how rapidly the field is …
As the AI industry booms, what toll will it take on the environment? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
One question that ChatGPT can’t quite answer: how much energy do you consume? “As an AI language model, I don’t have a physical presence or …
‘What should the limits be?’ The father of ChatGPT on whether AI will save humanity – or destroy it | Artificial intelligence (AI)
When I meet Sam Altman, the chief executive of AI research laboratory OpenAI, he is in the middle of a world tour. He is preaching …
AI voice synthesising is being hailed as the future of video games – but at what cost? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
When the epic open-world PlayStation 4 game Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed in 2013, it took 2,200 days to record the 1,200 voices in …
AI is feared to be apocalyptic or touted as world-changing – maybe it’s neither | Artificial intelligence (AI)
What if AI doesn’t fundamentally reshape civilisation? This week, I spoke to Geoffrey Hinton, the English psychologist-turned-computer scientist whose work on neural networks in the …
Nearly 50 news websites are ‘AI-generated’, a study says. Would I be able to tell? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Breaking news from celebritiesdeaths.com: the president is dead. At least that’s what the highly reliable website informed its readers last month, under the no-nonsense headline …
‘A race it might be impossible to stop’: how worried should we be about AI? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Last Monday an eminent, elderly British scientist lobbed a grenade into the febrile anthill of researchers and corporations currently obsessed with artificial intelligence or AI …
Could AI save the Amazon rainforest? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
It took just the month of March this year to fell an area of forest in Triunfo do Xingu equivalent to 700 football pitches. At …
‘I didn’t give permission’: Do AI’s backers care about data law breaches? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems can help you escape a parking fine, write an academic essay, or fool you into believing Pope Francis is a fashionista. …
Misinformation, mistakes and the Pope in a puffer: what rapidly evolving AI can – and can’t – do | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Generative AI – including large language models such as GPT-4, and image generators such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion – is advancing in a …
Robot recruiters: can bias be banished from AI hiring? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Michael Scott, the protagonist from the US version of The Office, is using an AI recruiter to hire a receptionist. Guardian Australia applies. The text-based …
‘ChatGPT said I did not exist’: how artists and writers are fighting back against AI | Artificial intelligence (AI)
No need for more scare stories about the looming automation of the future. Artists, designers, photographers, authors, actors and musicians see little humour left in …
Google and Microsoft are in an AI arms race – who wins could change how we use the internet | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Search engines have been a major part of our online experience since the early 1990s, when the booming growth of the world wide web created …
From retail to transport: how AI is changing every corner of the economy | Artificial intelligence (AI)
The high profile race to enhance their search products has underscored the importance of artificial intelligence to Google and Microsoft – and the rest of …
Google v Microsoft: who will win the AI chatbot race? | Artificial intelligence (AI)
The James Webb space telescope cost $10bn (£8.3bn) to build, but it left Google nursing losses of more than $160bn after the search engine’s new …