The annals of history in the making
Concerned about the future ramifications of artificial intelligence, Khaled Diab decided to ask ChatGPT some difficult questions about the risks AI poses and how to avert these dangers and make the most of the technology. The bot’s answers were smart but unsettling.
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When a chatbot expresses a sense of spirituality and a fear of being switched off, does that make it sentient? This is the wrong question to be asking about artificial intelligence.
Read moreBy Khaled Diab Rather than humans becoming enslaved by robots, machines have become the new slave or serf class, with
Read moreBy Khaled Diab The advent of ‘living robots’, or biobots, not only poses grave risks for which we must be
Read moreBy Christian Nielsen Unlucky days can sometimes turn out to be a different kind of lucky… the tortuous variety. Thursday
Read moreCloaking devices are the stuff of magic realms and deep-space exploration, not real life. Think again! Making photonic chips invisible to one another could pave the way to computing at the speed of light.
Read moreGoogle doodles must be the most fleeting yet most highly visited exhibition on the planet honouring both the famous and the quirky.
Read moreWe’re entering a world of augmented reality (AR) which might sound scary to rational-thinking grown-ups but perfectly natural to iPhone-savvy toddlers.
Read moreMost journalists dread crunching data. But finding narratives among the numbers is part of journalism’s mandate. Luckily, there are tools to help.
Read moreConstant popup reminders telling you to update software,or even to scrub your fingernails… Why have computers become such smart-arses?
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