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We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authorsThis week, from 2023: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humansBy Ben Tarnoff. Read
The prime minister is trying to untangle the copyright knot. But this is about much more than intellectual propertyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf Anthony Albanese has a spiritual home it would be somewhere between the old Sando and the Enmore theatre in that pocket of Sydney’s inner west where
As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors’ first visions. They sketch out what could be lostA film industry dominated by AI is a dystopian prospect: stories and dialogue generated by large language models, populated by reincarnated screen icons and uncanny humanoids. That is
What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it’s a reliable sense of their own mindsIn August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode – a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled – a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a
ChatGPT’s Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need | Robin Kirman Read More »
Redesigned flagship laptop has a fantastic display, killer performance and the first touchscreen on a Mac, but comes with a serious price tagApple’s MacBook Pro has been redesigned for the first time in five years, getting slightly slimmer, significantly lighter and adding a fantastic new OLED display with the first touchscreen on a Mac.The new
Apple MacBook Pro review: lighter, thinner and a stunning OLED touchscreen Read More »
Donald Trump defended defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing an impeachment resolution from Republican senator Thomas Massie, saying Hegseth ‘won two wars’. The president, who said he had spoken to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, said he was ‘amazed’ by claims Huang conducted an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, and that the FBI was
Huang built Nvidia as a family business but after the co-founder had an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, its board faces a difficult decisionFor more than 30 years, Jensen Huang has been the seemingly unshakable public face of Nvidia. He co-founded the company as a young engineer in 1993 and oversaw its growth into
Jensen Huang’s image has been shattered. Could he be pushed out at Nvidia? Read More »
The same technical limits that prevent superintelligence make these systems dangerous. But we know how to regulate themMany Silicon Valley leaders believe superintelligence is an imminent threat to society. The White House even published an accord about it. This isn’t enough.Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, estimates the risk of human extinction is at least
Today’s AI won’t achieve superintelligence. But catastrophic risk is real | Sunita Verma Read More »
Election results appear to have turbo-charged an already growing social, political and financial market rethink about AI‘AI clog’: UK battles onslaught of chatbot-generated complaintsEditorial: the AI backlash – Silicon Valley’s political power is crackingLast week’s midterms may not have cowed Donald Trump, but they should be a wake-up call for the grinning tech broligarchs who
MPs, local authorities, lawyers, schools and more are receiving floods of grievances, requests and legal challenges, often complex to read and respond to“It started as a trickle in 2024 and now it’s an onslaught.” Hollie Wickens, a senior caseworker in a Labour MP’s office, is explaining the daily reality of dealing with surging volumes of
‘AI clog’: UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints Read More »
