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Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft – let’s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage On 14 February, Kevin Roose, the New York Times tech columnist, had a two-hour conversation with Bing, Microsoft’s ChatGPT-enhanced search engine. He emerged from the experience an apparently changed man, because the chatbot had told …

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For the photographer, these women embody the harmonious life of her ‘dream destination’ Last year, Magdalena Szurek wanted to fulfil all the travel plans the pandemic had stalled, and she saw Sarajevo as her “dream destination”. “I have family from Croatia,” says Szurek, who lives in Poland. “So I used to visit the Balkans every …

‘You don’t need to know the history of Sarajevo to see symbiosis’: Magdalena Szurek’s best phone picture Read More »

Organisations including NSPCC say app has chosen to deny the problem and must take meaningful action TikTok has been urged to strengthen its content moderation policies around suicide and eating disorder material by organisations including the NSPCC and the Molly Rose Foundation. The groups claimed TikTok had not acted swiftly enough following the publication of …

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PM had held talks with firm’s owner SoftBank in effort to make London first choice for tech flotations The Cambridge-based chip designer Arm is to pursue a US-only listing this year, dealing a major blow to Rishi Sunak’s ambitions to make London the first choice for tech company flotations. The company, which is owned by …

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A cyberpunk cat, a murderous lamb and a lonesome fox battle Norse gods at this year’s Baftas for video games, with the winners to be announced on 30 March The nominees for this year’s Bafta Games Awards have been announced, with God of War Ragnarök and Stray leading the field. This will be the 19th …

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Users asking questions to be given option of ‘creative’, ‘balanced’ or ‘precise’ response Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is offering replies in three different tones as it seeks to address some criticisms of the service. The search engine’s chatbot, powered by the same technology behind ChatGPT, will now give users options for three types of response: creative …

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US legislation could block the social media app as fears of Chinese state surveillance increase The Chinese spy balloon that hovered over the US last month did not just damage relations between Beijing and Washington, it also cast a shadow over the future of TikTok. Last week, a US congressional committee backed legislation that would …

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As Oscars night approaches, we pick out some of the rare movie tie-ins that don’t make you want to throw popcorn at your screen Designed by ex-Atari luminary David Crane (Pitfall, Decathlon), Activision’s wonderful tie-in captured the humour and spirit of the classic comedy. Players set up their own ghostbusting franchises, buying equipment before setting …

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Alphabetti theatre, NewcastleIn Alfie Heffer’s frightening play, theatregoers become recruitment reps as a candidate is put through her paces In the late 1800s, Frederick Winslow Taylor set about codifying the labour of the workforce in the paper mill and steel industries. His analysis, published in The Principles of Scientific Management, was designed to extract maximum …

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Extra parts, from a thumb to an arm, could be designed to help boost our capabilities Whether it is managing childcare, operating on a patient or cooking a Sunday dinner, there are many occasions when an extra pair of arms would come in, well, handy. Now researchers say such human augmentation could be on the …

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