• James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon

    James Bond nightclubs, vodka, aftershave: 007 writer on the spy’s future with Amazon
    As the Bond franchise heads to the online giant, thriller author William Boyd foresees a slew of spin-offs and says AI is not a threat to human screenwritersAmong the people best placed to predict how any James Bond of the future might look is a British writer with a strong feel for spies and for spying. William Boyd has been drawn back to the terrain repeatedly in his books. What’s more, he wrote his own official Bond novel, Solo, in 2013.Now Amazon has picked up the rights to the charact
  • ‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI

    ‘I want him to be prepared’: why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
    As AI grows increasingly prevalent, some are showing their children tools from ChatGPT to Dall-E to learn and bondJules White used to believe his 11-year-old son needed to know how to code to be successful. Now, though, the Vanderbilt computer science professor says it’s more crucial for James to learn a new, more useful skill: how to prompt artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in 2022, White has been showing his son the ropes of generative AI. He began by de
  • ‘Horrendous’: the ‘ridiculously common’ lies people tell on CVs, and what happens when they are discovered

    Fake reasons for leaving jobs, manipulated dates and inflated titles among most frequent falsehoodsIn 28 years of recruitment, Matt Collingwood has witnessed some “very awkward” job interviews. Like the candidate whose CV falsely boasted of a second-dan black belt in taekwondo, only to discover his interviewer was an aficionado of the sport. “An interview that should have been an hour lasted 15 minutes,” said Collingwood, the managing director of the IT recruitment agency
  • Nasser Hussain’s cricketing truth-bomb fights back against march of AI robots | Barney Ronay

    Nasser Hussain’s cricketing truth-bomb fights back against march of AI robots | Barney Ronay
    The Sky Sports pundit deserves an award for his accurate assessment of India’s Champions Trophy gerrymanderingI believe the robots are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside – let the robots’ laughter remind us how we used to be. The Onion, there, prescient as ever, 25 years on.May I also say at this point that in a time of industrial-scale sporting bullshit telling the truth is, more than ever, a revolutionary act, a
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  • Two Australian men charged in global investigation into AI-made child abuse images

    Two Australian men charged in global investigation into AI-made child abuse images
    Dozens including man from Queensland and man from NSW arrested as part of international operation Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTwo Australian men have been charged during a global operation into a criminal group distributing artificial intelligence-generated child abuse images.A 38-year-old NSW man and 31-year-old Queensland man have been arrested alongside a total of 25 linked to the investigation into child sexual exploitation.Sign up for Guardian Australia’