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Shushma Patel: AI will always need human creativity in order to exist

Shushma Patel: AI will always need human creativity in order to exist

UK’s first Pro Vice Chancellor for AI, Professor Shushma Patel, explores how the fusion of AI, diversity and creativity offers real innovation opportunities.

Cindy Gallop: AI bosses fuel and benefit from toxic masculinity

Cindy Gallop: AI bosses fuel and benefit from toxic masculinity

Cindy Gallop discusses her platform “Make Love Not Porn”, advocating for human curation in tech to fight against toxic masculinity and the rising rape culture.

Henry Nash: Forget hyped-up AI. We must now focus on real value and ROI

Henry Nash: Forget hyped-up AI. We must now focus on real value and ROI

Serial tech entrepreneur and author, Henry Nash, discusses AI’s hype vs reality, why we must now focus on AI’s ROI, and the future of quantum computing.

Jeremy Levesley: AI has no intelligence! It needs people and maths to exist

Jeremy Levesley: AI has no intelligence! It needs people and maths to exist

Lesley Fox Prize-winning mathematician Prof. Jeremy Levesley discusses AI’s role in society, the meaning of intelligence and why we must change education.

How AI can help you make a computer game without knowing anything about coding

Computing, Machine Intelligence

How AI can help you make a computer game without knowing anything about coding

Just as calculators took over the tedious number-crunching in maths a few decades ago, artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming coding. Take Kyo, an eight-year-old boy in Singapore who developed a simple platform game in just two hours, attracting over 500,000 players.

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Shushma Patel: AI will always need human creativity in order to exist

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Sex machina: in the wild west world of human-AI relationships, the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk

Relationships, Relationships

Sex machina: in the wild west world of human-AI relationships, the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk

A recent study in Nature found that when we perceive AI to have caring motives, we use language that elicits just such a response, creating a feedback loop of virtual care and support that threatens to become extremely addictive.

‘We’re the ultimate creators, not AI’: Will.i.am on why we’re worrying too much about machine-made tunes

‘We’re the ultimate creators, not AI’: Will.i.am on why we’re worrying too much about machine-made tunes

Generative artificial intelligence is poison for human creativity, according to conventional media wisdom. “Plagiarism machines” is how Breaking Bad author Vince Gilligan has described the large language models (LLMs) used to train the likes of ChatGPT and Claude.

AI could be the breakthrough that allows humanoid robots to jump from science fiction to reality

AI could be the breakthrough that allows humanoid robots to jump from science fiction to reality

Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models made by or backed by the likes of Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI are able to walk and move like humans, as well as perform feats of agility and dexterity.

A world-first law in Europe is targeting artificial intelligence. Other countries can learn from it

A world-first law in Europe is targeting artificial intelligence. Other countries can learn from it

Around the world, governments are grappling with how best to manage the increasingly unruly beast that is artificial intelligence (AI).

From climate change to landfill, AI promises to solve Earth’s big environmental problems – but there’s a hitch

From climate change to landfill, AI promises to solve Earth’s big environmental problems – but there’s a hitch

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised our lives in myriad ways, from personalising our social media feeds to giving us driving directions and monitoring our health.