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Why we need to be wary of anthropomorphising chatbots

22 March 2023

For all their unsettling emergent abilities, chatbots are still just next-word predictors. We need to remember this and avoid seeing human attributes where they don't exist, warns Alex Wilkins
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Is our evolving relationship with tech shifting our view of reality?

14 December 2022

This year saw the launch of ChatGPT, an AI that anyone can converse with, and the news that a quantum computer simulated a wormhole. Are our sensibilities about what is real changing, asks Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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If cyberpunk no longer fits our vision of the future, what does?

9 November 2022

Cyberpunk, once a hi-tech picture of the future, now feels passe. A new adaption of sci-fi novel The Peripheral gives a fresh perspective on how tech could transform humanity, says Annalee Newitz
The success of text-to-image AIs raises major ethical issues

The success of text-to-image AIs raises major ethical issues

12 October 2022

Apps that create images based on text can deliver amazing results, but there are problems with the data sets some are trained on and the lack of compensation for artists, says Annalee Newitz

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