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Some say the existential dangers of a ‘God-like’ AI is overplayed but even then there are other impacts to be wary of For some AI experts, a watershed moment in artificial intelligence development is not far away. And the global AI safety summit, to be held at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire in November, therefore cannot …

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The developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good ‘peetime’ and how the program helped him meet his wife Created out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong screening, RunPee is an app that …

Dan Gardner wanted to know when to go to the loo during films – so he built an app Read More »

After recent building failures, researchers are looking to ancient materials for inspiration in creating more durable materials that repair themselves using glue or even bacteria Concrete research gets caricatured as the epitome of dull – until the roof falls in. The dangerous state of many British schools built partly from reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) …

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US ruling on works created through artificial intelligence gives boost to creative workers fighting for livelihoods The use of AI in art is facing a setback after a ruling that an award-winning image could not be copyrighted because it was not made sufficiently by humans. The decision, delivered by the US copyright office review board, …

An old master? No, it’s an image AI just knocked up … and it can’t be copyrighted Read More »

The chatbot GPT-4 has produced more viable commercial ideas more efficiently and more cheaply than US university students In all the frenzied discourse about large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 there is one point on which everyone seems to agree: these models are essentially stochastic parrots – namely, machines that are good at generating …

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In his new book, Technofeudalism, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home of Aegina, he argues it’s no longer the global finance system that shapes us, but the ‘fiefdoms’ of tech firms What could be more delightful than a trip to Greece to meet Yanis Varoufakis, the …

‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech Read More »

Authors have entered a war over words with OpenAI for using their books as ‘training’ feedstock Battles between human and artificial intelligence are no longer science fiction. The strikes in Hollywood led by the united guilds of actors and screenwriters have a common, intangible enemy: the algorithms and computer-generated imagery that are increasingly programmed by …

An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT | Tim Adams Read More »

The supermarket has used data from menus, online cuisine and social media posts to shape its Japanese range Under fake pink cherry blossom, guests sipped House of Suntory cocktails and picked at plates of chicken karaage, prawn gyoza and cauliflower tempura from a kaitenzushi–style conveyor belt … This was the London launch of Waitrose’s new …

Waitrose turns to AI to create recipes for successful food products Read More »

Refining the metal – which is essential for electric car batteries – in Europe would ease the EU’s precarious reliance on China It has been called the new gold rush – a rush to catch up with China in producing and refining the materials needed in everything from computers to cars: but has it come …

The east German town at the centre of the new ‘gold rush’ … for lithium Read More »

A sweltering day’s work led the film-maker to a group of children with one goal in mind Given the unforgiving August heat, most people were keeping to the shade of the trees in a nearby plaza. These boys, however, were playing football with a foam buoy. Juan Carlos Castañeda had sought out shade, too, and …

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