• DeepMind’s AlphaCode Can Outcompete Human Coders

    When it comes to tracking the incremental advances of AI potential, humans have an odd tendency to think in terms of board games we probably haven’t played since childhood. Though there’s no shortage of examples, even recent ones, highlighting AI’s ability to utterly own the cardboard gaming space, those tests only go…Read more...
  • The Guardian view on ChatGPT: an eerily good human impersonator | Editorial

    Artificial intelligence is not artificial consciousness – but it still needs to be regulated to keep people safeProbably the best software program for impersonating humans ever released to the public is ChatGPT. Such is its appeal that within days of its launch last week, the boss of the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot, OpenAI, tweeted that 1 million people had logged on. Facebook and Spotify took months to attract that level of engagement. Its allure is obvious: ChatGPT
  • What does the Lensa AI app do with my self portraits and why has it gone viral?

    Caitlin Cassidy gives Nino Bucci the full picture of the latest ‘magic avatar’ generator and image editing appGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCaitlin, I’m seeing a lot of weird portraits of friends popping up on my social media timelines. What is going on?OK. So there’s this app called Lensa, which was launched as a photo editing app back in 2018, by Prisma Labs.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon emai