• This Question-Answering Typewriter Is Like if We Had Siri in the '70s

    Although they’re far from perfect in their modern incarnation, Maker Cameron Coward’s latest video shows us what smart assistants could have been like in the ‘70s, decades before voice recognition and even personal computers, when an electric typewriter would have been the only way to interact with them. We’re…Read more...
  • Now AI can write students’ essays for them, will everyone become a cheat? | Rob Reich

    Teachers and parents can’t detect this new form of plagiarism. Tech companies could step in – if they had the will to do soParents and teachers across the world are rejoicing as students have returned to classrooms. But unbeknownst to them, an unexpected insidious academic threat is on the scene: a revolution in artificial intelligence has created powerful new automatic writing tools. These are machines optimised for cheating on school and university papers, a potential siren song fo