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AI gives voice to dead animals in Cambridge exhibition

Creatures can converse and share their stories by voice or text through visitors’ mobile phones at Museum of ZoologyIf the pickled bodies, partial skeletons and stuffed carcasses that fill museums seem a little, well, quiet, fear not. In the latest coup for artificial intelligence, dead animals are to receive a new lease of life to share their stories...

Mon Oct 14, 2024 02:02
Nobel winner Geoffrey Hinton is the ‘godfather of AI’. Here’s an offer he shouldn’t refuse… | John Naughton

The computer scientist’s dogged belief in the potential of neural networks helped unlock machine learning. But he’d be wise to remember the experience of a fellow laureateWay back in 2011 Marc Andreessen, a venture capitalist with aspirations to be a public intellectual, published an essay entitled “Why Software Is Eating the World”, predicting that...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 18:05
Australia’s spy chief warns AI will accelerate online radicalisation

Asio boss Mike Burgess says social media impact is a ‘step-change’ in the threat posed by extremismGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe head of Australia’s peak intelligence agency has warned that people like the Christchurch terrorist are being radicalised on social media, and artificial intelligence is likely to make it much...

Sat Oct 12, 2024 03:30
‘They don’t just fall out of trees’: Nobel awards highlight Britain’s AI pedigree

Recognition for Demis Hassabis and Geoffrey Hinton marks moment when important ingredients came togetherIt was more than even the most ardent advocates expected. After all the demonstrations of superhuman prowess, and the debates over whether the technology was humanity’s best invention yet or its surest route to self-destruction, artificial intelligence...

Fri Oct 11, 2024 15:26
Opt out: how to protect your baby’s photos on the internet

Tech companies aren’t transparent about what they do with our photos – we asked experts about best baby-pic practicesWelcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. If you’d like to skip to a section about a particular risk you’re trying to protect your child against,...

Thu Oct 10, 2024 16:01
Melbourne lawyer referred to complaints body after AI generated made-up case citations in family court

Legal professional used software to generate a case citation list, but did not use documents that had undergone human verificationFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA Melbourne lawyer has been referred to the Victorian legal complaints body after admitting to using artificial...

Thu Oct 10, 2024 09:37

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