UK risks losing out on hi-tech growth if it falters on AI regulation
Shutterstock / Everything PossibleThe UK government has published a white paper on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). While an...
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The environmental cost of data centres is substantial, and making them energy-efficient will only solve half the problem
shutterstock In 2022, Indonesia hosted around 215 million internet users, who spent an average of more than eight hours on...
I used to work at Google and now I’m an AI researcher. Here’s why slowing down AI development is wise
Chuttersnap / UnsplashIs it time to put the brakes on the development of artificial intelligence (AI)? If you’ve quietly asked...
How Russian and Iranian drone strikes further dehumanize warfare
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night several years ago. Drone...
Let’s base AI debates on reality, not extreme fears about the future
A group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables are calling for a six-month pause on artificial intelligence...
Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why it’s difficult to do and important to get right
The new generation of AI tools makes it a lot easier to produce convincing misinformation. Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via...
The Pope Francis puffer coat was fake – here’s a history of real papal fashion
The AI-generated images of Pope Francis that fooled much of the internet. Created by MidjourneyBefore news of his hospitalisation for...
Has GPT-4 really passed the startling threshold of human-level artificial intelligence? Well, it depends
agsandrew/ShutterstockRecent public interest in tools like ChatGPT has raised an old question in the artificial intelligence community: is artificial general...
How low-paid workers in Madagascar power French tech’s AI ambitions
Drawing of the premises of a data annotation company made with the AI Midjourney. Généré par MidJourney CC-BY-4.0, CC BY-NCA...
Paul Mashatile, South Africa’s new deputy president, has a critical task: to bring back a sense of stability
Paul Mashatile, the deputy president of South Africa. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty ImagesIn a recent cabinet reshuffle President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed Paul...
