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AI chatbots have a tendency to exaggerate, but their verbose nature feels well-suited to thehighly associative task of dream analysisSome say that talking about your dreams is boring, but personally I think otherworldly nocturnal escapades provide far richer fodder for small talk than the footy season or this unseasonal weather. Sadly, not everyone agrees. That’s why, when I hear about an AI dream interpretation app, I’m seduced by the potential for a captive, preternaturally intelli

Billionaire’s lawyers say offer will be withdrawn if firm he helped found a decade ago ‘preserves the charity’s mission’Elon Musk says he will abandon his $97.4bn offer to buy the non-profit behind OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker drops its plan to convert into a for-profit company.“If OpenAI, Inc’s Board is prepared to preserve the charity’s mission and stipulate to take the ‘for sale’ sign off its assets by halting its conversion, Musk will with

Short film falsely depicts actor and other Jewish celebrities opposing recent antisemitic remarks from pop starScarlett Johansson has warned of the “imminent dangers of AI” after a deepfake video of her and other prominent Jewish celebrities opposing recent antisemitic remarks from Kanye West went viral this week.The video contained AI-generated versions of more than a dozen celebrities, including Johansson, David Schwimmer, Jerry Seinfeld, Drake, Adam Sandler, Stephen Spielberg, and

AI energy | Right to buy | Poor handwriting | Playing to the gallery | Late delivery | Cleaning upRe your article (Tech firms call for zonal electricity pricing in UK to fuel AI datacentres, 10 February), if artificial intelligence was showing even basic intelligence, it would tell its bosses not to set up in remote areas. AI should be in cities, where the waste heat generated by high electricity usage can be put to good use heating homes. And why should tech firms think they have a right to che

Eric Schmidt fears terrorist groups or countries such as North Korea, Iran or Russia may use AI to develop weaponsGoogle’s former chief executive has warned that artificial intelligence could be used by rogue states such as North Korea, Iran and Russia to “harm innocent people”.Eric Schmidt, who held senior posts at Google from 2001 to 2017, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that those countries and terrorists could adopt and misuse the technology to develop weapons to c