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Artists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on

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After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them winPoised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while […]

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Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all

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It’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headingHave you been feeling trapped in an endless cycle of artificial intelligence hype and panic? You’re not alone.It’s a chaotic time to make sense of the

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Small but mighty! Remembering the GameCube, Nintendo’s purple bundle of joy

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The first console I ever bought, it was hyped as a threat to the PlayStation, then mocked as a flop. But now, as it marks its 25th anniversary, it’s looked back on with misty-eyed reverence This week marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo GameCube, the first console I ever bought with my own money.

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No Big Deal review – is this how AI ends humanity … with a sitcom so bad it bores you to death?

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The characters are dead-eyed waxworks which speak with all the nuance of a satnav. But this AI-created workplace comedy is so bad that even the greatest actors alive couldn’t stop it being unwatchableAs you will no doubt be aware, one Anthropic researcher claimed there is a greater than one in 10 chance that AI will

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‘We were bored of traditional fantasy cliches’: inside Playground Games’ 10-year effort to revive Fable

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The distinctively British RPG is returning courtesy of the makers of Forza Horizon – with comedy talent such as Richard Ayoade and Natasia Demetriou voicing sweary characters. We had our first play and spoke to its developerWhen Playground Games was founded in 2010, its objective was straightforward: to make the best cars in video games.

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Jack Thorne warns some fellow scriptwriters are using AI ‘to cheat’

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Adolescence co-writer criticises government inaction and calls for laws banning secret use of AI to generate scriptsJack Thorne, one of Britain’s most successful screen and stage writers, has warned that some people in his profession are using AI “to cheat”, as he called for laws banning the secret use of the technology to generate scripts.Thorne,

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AI will transform capitalism – but how?

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Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks likeThe idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to

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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’

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She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of powerNaomi Klein’s new book starts on a mountaintop with two “faithful men gathering an audience to share their vision”. It’s a vision of a

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Extended reality takes visitors from the ruins of West Bank to 17th-century Amsterdam at Venice Immersive

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From frivolous to serious, virtual nosy passersby to the impact of climate change, the groundbreaking festival draws to a close – but this year the exhibits live onThe first installation one encounters on visiting Venice Immersive, the film festival’s reliably head-spinning showcase for new media, is a chest-high metal box fitted with an eyepiece and

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