• Modern gadgets in the style of Gaudí – in pictures

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  • What’s the point of personal statements when ChatGPT can say it so much better? | Tim Adams

    Thanks in part to AI, students will no longer have to wax lyrical about struggles and achievements to secure a university placeThe decision to scrap personal statements from university applications is overdue. Not only for the stated reason – that the practice of writing a 4,000-character essay about yourself is seen to favour middle-class kids (and the genetically smug) – but also because the temptations of help from artificial intelligence are increasingly hard to resist. Who is go
  • Is this by Rothko or a robot? We ask the experts to tell the difference between human and AI art

    An art historian, a critic and a gallerist are tasked with guessing whether a piece is by an important artist or a clever bot. It turns out it’s harder than it looksThe year 2022 was when AI-generated images went viral. Online, you may have come across very realistic yet suspiciously improbable images of, say, an astronaut riding a horse through space or an avocado doubling as an armchair.Numerous new generators – including Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion – offer anyone