The liar’s dividend of deepfake tech means we don’t trust what we can see February 21, 2023 Deepfake videos featuring everyone from Barack Obama to Tom Cruise are everywhere on social media. They could be fun memes - or they could be dangerous disinformation, writes Elena Siniscalco
Legal tech revolution: Firms invest in cost saving AI tools like ChatGPT to improve profitability February 15, 2023 Law firms are continuing to invest in cost-saving technologies, including artificial intelligence driven tools like ChatGPT, in seeking to stave off falling profitability. A sharp drop in M&A deals has hit US law firms’ profitability, wiping out the majority of all gains they made during Covid, the research from Thomson Reuters shows. US law firms [...]
Twitter: Musk wants new CEO by end of year, as he warns of AI regulation and insists there are no aliens February 15, 2023 Billionaire Elon Musk has said he anticipates finding a chief executive for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year”. Speaking via a video call to the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said making sure the platform can function remained the most important thing for him. “I think I need to stabilise the organisation [...]
The race for AI-powered search engines is a long war and ChatGPT could easily lose February 15, 2023 Will ChatGPT mean the end of Google searches as we know them? As tech giants compete to get their version of the AI tool in pole position, all is not lost for Google, writes Paul Ormerod
Reimagine staff training and learning with AI February 14, 2023 For companies looking to level up their employees’ learning processes, Sana’s AI-powered platform could be the ideal solution. Since 2016, Sana has championed the potential of Artificial Intelligence to revolutionise how companies approach learning and development. Capable of providing bespoke recommendations, powering enterprise search and even creating polls, quizzes, translations, images and entire training courses [...]
Reining in ChatGPT: AI tech titans must navigate a regulatory maze to thrive in the UK and beyond February 14, 2023 As ChatGPT continues to amaze, and Alphabet and others try to follow suit, Jess Jones explores some of the legal and regulatory challenges facing AI tech, and what they mean for the UK’s ambition to become a science superpower. “The genie is out of the bottle – and it’s hard to imagine how it goes [...]
In the scramble for chips, Britain needs to come out on top February 10, 2023 Rishi Sunak wants to put science at the heart of his government, but as the US and the EU scramble to stay on top of the semiconductor supply chain crisis, the UK has a hefty hill to climb, writes Gerard B. Lyons.
Ed Warner: Rugby union could learn from the NFL model on Super Bowl LVII weekend February 9, 2023 For all the relentless commercial growth of the Premier League, IPL and F1, the NFL remains the sporting brand to beat. Super Bowl LVII will be watched by more than 200m people worldwide on Sunday. The matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles has its stories, but in truth the identity of [...]
An outdated Culture Department prioritised Centre Parcs over innovative start ups February 8, 2023 Britain’s startups deserve a department dedicated to fostering their success, rather than vying for attention against Centre Parcs, writes Dom Hallas.
Google to launch own version of Microsoft’s ChatGPT: AI will ‘soon’ be integrated into search engine February 7, 2023 Google is launching its own artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot following the success of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT. The company said the product, named Bard, will be released to the public in the coming weeks and will provide written answers to questions in split seconds. AI will also “soon” be integrated into the company’s search engine to provide [...]