• New artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer

    New artificial intelligence tool can accurately identify cancer
    Exclusive: Algorithm performs more efficiently and effectively than current methods, according to a studyDoctors, scientists and researchers have built an artificial intelligence model that can accurately identify cancer, in a development they say could speed up diagnosis of the disease and fast-track patients to treatment.Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. It results in about 10 million deaths annually, or nearly one in six deaths, according to the World Health Organization. In many
  • Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience

    Frankenstein’s warning: the too-familiar hubris of today’s technoscience
    Technology presuming to recreate humanity is central to Mary Shelley’s masterpiece. It is more relevant today than everGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailCan we imagine a scenario in which the different anxieties aroused by George Romero’s horror film Night of the Living Dead and Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi dystopia 2001: A Space Odyssey merge?How might a monster that combined our fear of becoming something less than human with our fear of increasingly “intelligent&r
  • We Need a Consumer-First Approach to A.I.

    We Need a Consumer-First Approach to A.I.
    A.I. marketing is at a fever pitch, promising that this new wave of generative AI tools, powered by large language models, can help us do everything from navigating legal contracts to saving hundreds on our phone bills. When a leader like Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai calls AI “more profound than fire or electricity,”…Read more...
  • AI Will Make Our Society Even More Unequal, Economists Warn

    AI Will Make Our Society Even More Unequal, Economists Warn
    On November 30 2022, OpenAI launched the AI chatbot ChatGPT, making the latest generation of AI technologies widely available. In the few months since then, we have seen Italy ban ChatGTP over privacy concerns, leading technology luminaries calling for a pause on AI systems development, and even prominent researchers…Read more...
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  • AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker

    AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind | Ian Tucker
    I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?A couple of weeks ago I tweeted a call-out for freelance journalists to pitch me feature ideas for the science and sechnology section ofthe Observer’s New Review. Unsurprisingly, given headlines, fears and interest in LLM (large language model) chatbots such as ChatGPT, many of the suggestions that flooded in focused on artificial intelligence – incl