• Real v fake: how the Harris-Trump debate laid out different takes on AI

    Real v fake: how the Harris-Trump debate laid out different takes on AI
    One candidate revels in AI-generated images of cats and geese, while the other posts real photos of her grandparentsIn their first, and likely only debate, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump argued about artificial intelligence. They spoke of China, chips and “domestic innovation”. The country learned how Harris, Trump and their allies would – or intentionally wouldn’t – use artificial intelligence for their own ends.But the real lessons were in the aftermath. The onlin
  • What’s so funny about getting an AI app to give you a roasting?

    What’s so funny about getting an AI app to give you a roasting?
    Roasting can be really brutal, but at least if we inflict it on ourselves, we can get ahead of the jokeA friend recently shared a comment someone had made about her online. Sophie was a middle-aged, never-was influencer, in this stranger’s estimation, who exploited her children and alienated everyone she met. As I debated whether “liking” the post would read as support or broad agreement, I noticed a strange watermark. The vicious words had been generated not by a bitter strang
  • NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch

    NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch
    Prof Sir Martin Landray: clinical IT functions are slow and ‘devastatingly user unfriendly’The NHS will struggle to embrace technological advances in areas such as AI because its basic systems are too slow and “devastatingly user-unfriendly”, according to one of the UK’s leading scientists.Prof Sir Martin Landray, the co-founder of the UK Recovery trial that saved thousands of lives during the Covid pandemic, said it was “deeply frustrating” that the hea