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Political messages | Foreign foods | Decline and fall | Dover queues | Royalty revealed | Honours listI wonder if there is someone in a back office in Smith Square using a chatbot to generate a post-election note along the lines of Liam Byrne’s “there is no money [left]”. (AI will end the west’s weak productivity and low growth. But who exactly will benefit?, 7 April). Without the benefit of any technological aid, I suggest: “Everything is broken. You could try swit

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Although fleas are annoying pests, credit must be given where it’s due. These tiny creatures, just 3 millimeters long, can leap as far as 330 millimeters in a single hop—a distance close to 100 times their own body length. Now a similar feat has been achieved by a miniature robot. The results were published 24 March in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. “We were inspired by fleas

Alluring and useful they may be, but the AI interfaces’ potential as gateways for fraud and intrusive data gathering is huge – and is only set to growConcerns about the growing abilities of chatbots trained on large language models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, Google’s Bard and Microsoft’s Bing Chat, are making headlines. Experts warn of their ability to spread misinformation on a monumental scale, as well as the existential risk their development may pose to humanity.