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Artificial Intelligence Has Come for Our…Beauty Pageants?
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 …
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 …