AI

artificial intelligence

The artificial intelligence boom means a multi-trillion dollar industry is coming into existence before our eyes. With great opportunity come great risks, as two important new Australian reports show.

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Curious about how ChatGPT can help you at work? Be careful what company information might be given away while experimenting, warns a UNSW Business School professor.  

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Pausing AI development will give our governments and culture time to catch up with and steer the rush of new technology.

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The sudden removal of ‘erotic’ features from the virtual friend app has left lovelorn users high and dry.

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Google is one of a number of companies getting involved in AI music-generation.

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Whether you’re using it to write a poem, a business report or learn more about your favourite hobby, ChatGPT is gaining popularity for its human-like conversations.

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Over 85,000 workers in tech have been laid off so far in 2023. So, what does this mean for the industry – and the wider economy?

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We’re facing a significant advance in AI using methods that are not described in scientific literature, and with datasets restricted to a single for-profit company.

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Ada Lovelace said computers could not invent. But a century later, Alan Turing pointed out inventiveness in machines could be found in their capacity to produce surprising and innovative results.

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The AI leans on a particular tactic for its success. If you knew what it was, beating it would get drastically easier.

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