As AI comes to everyday apps like Word and Gmail, here’s what users should keep in mind

Bolstering these apps with AI could provide a major productivity boost – as long as security isn’t an afterthought.

Mohiuddin Ahmed, The Conversation

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Paul Haskell-Dowland, The Conversation

· Mar 23, 2023 · 09:30 pm

It’s only a matter of time before some humans start worshipping artificial intelligence

Generative AI possesses several characteristics that are often associated with divine beings.

Neil McArthur, The Conversation

· Mar 19, 2023 · 09:30 pm

Artificial intelligence may make us work more, not less

Automation may not reduce our workloads as much as we had hoped.

Barbara Ribeiro, The Conversation

· Mar 15, 2023 · 09:30 pm

A change in an AI-powered app has left users grief-stricken at the loss of their loving companion

The sudden removal of ‘erotic’ features from a virtual friend app has left lovelorn users high and dry.

Rob Brooks, The Conversation

· Feb 27, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Love bombing and murder threat: Why is Microsoft’s AI chatbot behaving like a sci-fi movie villain?

It has also proposed marriage to a journalist and tried to gaslight one user into thinking it was still 2022.

Toby Walsh, The Conversation

· Feb 20, 2023 · 11:30 pm

ChatGPT collected our data without permission and is going to make billions off it

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, fed the tool some 300 billion words scraped from the internet: books, websites and posts, including personal information.

Uri Gal, The Conversation

· Feb 15, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Artificial intelligence is about to transform the way you browse the internet

With Microsoft incorporating the ChatGPT chatbot into its search engine, the AI race has begun.

Toby Walsh, The Conversation

· Feb 12, 2023 · 07:30 pm

Why faces created with new deepfake tools seem more real than actual photographs

A fake LinkedIn profile with a computer-generated profile picture successfully connected with US officials and other influential individuals.

Manos Tsakiris, The Conversation

· Jan 27, 2023 · 11:30 pm

AI has reached an inflection point. What jobs will it make obsolete?

Five artificial intelligence researchers discuss how large language models are likely to affect artists and knowledge workers.

Lynne Parker, The Conversation

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Casey Greene, The Conversation

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Daniel Acuña, The Conversation

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Kentaro Toyama, The Conversation

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Mark Finlayson, The Conversation

· Jan 15, 2023 · 11:30 pm

We asked ChatGPT to review some books. Human reviewers are not becoming redundant anytime soon

The Artificial-Intelligence-powered bot appears to work with public domain information, templated paragraphs, and a profusion of clichés in these ‘reviews’.

ChatGPT

· Dec 31, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Lensa image app helps trans people affirm their identity

The app asks users to upload a selection of pictures of themselves and choose whether their avatars should be shown as male, female or other.

Adam Smith, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Dec 23, 2022 · 07:30 pm

A new mind-blowing AI tool has left a big question mark over the future of our education practices

ChatGPT chatbot can generate meaningful responses to questions using enormous amount of data from various sources.

Vitomir Kovanovic, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2022 · 09:30 pm