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Trees play clear and crucial roles in many ecosystems—whether they’re providing shade on a sunny day, serving as a home for a family of owls, or cycling carbon dioxide out of the air. But forests are not only diminishing through exploitative logging practices as well as the process of desertification which turns grassland and shrubland arid. Restoring biodiversity to these areas through

AI experts cite ethical concerns over relationships humans may develop with such chatbotsThe next time you lie in bed and absent-mindedly ask your old friend Google for a piece of life advice, don’t be surprised if it speaks back to you.
DeepMind, the tech giant’s artificial intelligence arm, has announced it is testing a new tool that could soon become a “personal life coach”.The project will use generative AI to perform at least 21 different types of personal and profes

Guardian test highlights ‘experimental’ nature of ChatGPT service being made available in Tui’s appHolidaymakers typically rely on experienced tour guides and local companies to recommend excursions to medieval castles and spectacular waterfalls, but the world’s biggest tour operator has said it will entrust the service to artificial intelligence instead.The German travel company Tui has started using ChatGPT in its app to provide holiday recommendations, in the latest si

The 1973 original is an efficiently unsettling prediction of the horrors that artificial intelligence would bringWelcome to Westworld! It’s a whole town from the 19th-century American west, immaculately recreated for your enjoyment and populated with hyper-lifelike robot inhabitants – an amusement experience so immersive Disneyland should close its mousy-eared gates in resigned humiliation.There are saloons and brothels, and a bank perfect for a daring robbery. There’s also sex

Fears that bias in training sets would mean minorities bearing brunt of scams, fraud and misinformationDetection tools being developed to combat the growing threat of deepfakes – realistic-looking false content – must use training datasets that are inclusive of darker skin tones to avoid bias, experts have warned.Most deepfake detectors are based on a learning strategy that depends largely on the dataset that is used for its training. It then uses AI to detect signs that may not be c

Study shows that 60% of teens between ages 13-17 agreed with four or more conspiracy statements compared with 49% of adultsTeenagers are significantly more likely to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, a new study has shown, underscoring the broad impacts of gen Z’s relationship with social media.Findings from Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit that fights misinformation, showed that 60% of 13-17-year-old Americans surveyed agreed with four or mo

Study shows that 60% of teens between ages 13-17 agreed with four or more conspiracy statements compared with 49% of adultsTeenagers are significantly more likely to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, a new study has shown, underscoring the broad impacts of gen Z’s relationship with social media.Findings from Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit that fights misinformation, showed that 60% of 13-17-year-old Americans surveyed agreed with four or mo

Study shows that 60% of teens between ages 13-17 agreed with four or more conspiracy statements compared with 49% of adultsTeenagers are significantly more likely to believe online conspiracy theories than older generations, a new study has shown, underscoring the broad impacts of Gen Z’s relationship with social media.Findings from Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a non-profit that fights misinformation, showed that 60% of 13-17-year-olds surveyed agreed with four or more harmfu