Artificial Intelligence news

It doesn’t feel or know, but it can provoke feeling and lead to knowing, writes John HinkleyJoseph Earp’s piece on artificial intelligence and storytelling misses the mark (29 March). He casts creativity as a kind of untouchable genius and AI as its pale imitation. But storytelling is not a solitary act of divine inspiration – it is a craft, shaped in the doing and often improved through collaboration.Used well, AI is neither genius nor fraud. It’s a tool – lik

‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,’ said Val McDermid – joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalfA group of prominent authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to hold Meta accountable over its use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.The letter asked Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for culture, med

Exclusive: Ministers halt money for radiotherapy auto-contouring that would reduce waiting times and address staff shortagesMinisters have cut millions of pounds of funding for potentially life saving AI cancer technology in England, which cancer experts warn will increase waiting times and could cause more patients to die.Contouring is used in radiotherapy to ensure treatment is as effective and safe as possible. The tumour and normal tissue is “mapped” or contoured on to medical sc

Leading figures including Tom Dixon and Sebastian Conran add voices to criticism of government’s AI opt-out proposalA proposed overhaul of copyright law risks “running roughshod” over a British design industry that has created such memorable products as the red phone box, the London underground map and the iPhone, according to a group of leading UK designers.In a letter to the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, 35 UK-based designers have urged the government to change cours on i

Exclusive: education secretary exploring tools to compile student reports and assess writing and vocational skillsAI tools will soon be in use in classrooms across England, but the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, has one big question she wants answered: will they save time?Attending a Department for Education-sponsored hackathon in central London last week, Phillipson listened as developers explained how their tools could compile pupil reports, improve writing samples and even assess th