• Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting

    Home Office secretly backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting
    Covert government strategy to install electronic surveillance in shops raises issues around bias and data, and contrasts sharply with the EU ban to keep AI out of public spacesHome Office officials have drawn up secret plans to lobby the independent privacy regulator in an attempt to push the rollout of controversial facial recognition technology into high street shops and supermarkets, internal government minutes seen by the Observer reveal.The covert strategy was agreed during a closed-door me
  • AI prompt engineering: learn how not to ask a chatbot a silly question

    AI prompt engineering: learn how not to ask a chatbot a silly question
    Understanding how to interact with ChatGPT and its rivals so that their output matches your expectations will soon be a key office skill. Here’s what you need to knowAfter all the initial excitement over ChatGPT, the language-processing tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI), the use of chatbots is becoming more commonplace. So how do you train your AI for work and home? We answer a few simple questions.What is prompt engineering?
    It’s a technique for effectively communicating w