Asking the oracle

ChatGPT and similar AI text and image generation tools are taking the world by storm, but raise important questions about ethics, authorship and scientific credibility.

All aboard the bandwagon

Forget augmented reality, virtual reality, blockchain and the metaverse, the world’s big tech companies are jumping on the AI chatbot bandwagon as the next big thing, regardless of its consequences for art, knowledge and society.

CheatGPT

The generative AI industry will be worth about A$22 trillion by 2030, according to the CSIRO. These systems – of which ChatGPT is currently the best known – can write essays and code, generate music and artwork, and have entire conversations. But what happens when they’re turned to illegal uses?

Chat Chat

ChatGPT is the latest technology bandwagon to fire the imagination as companies looks for ways to use AI to eradicate workers and students work out ways to get their essays written for them, but is there steak to accompany the sizzle?

Strange new worlds

AI-based systems are being increasingly used to classify signals found in massive amounts of radio data, helping speed-up the search for alien life.

Show the game, not the gimmicks

Sports fans, by and large, just want to watch the action without onscreen gimmicks or annoying distractions in the stadium, but TV directors and sports administrators are determined to force them on us anyway.

Opening the black box

Everyone’s jumping on the AI bandwagon so modern philosophers are taking a leaf out of the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy to ape Vroomfondel and Majikthise of the Amalgamated Union of Philosophers, Sages, Luminaries and Other Thinking Persons and insert themselves into the debate.

AI in Australia

Artificial Intelligence is the latest technology to capture public, commercial and government attention, and the Albanese government has launched a host of new initiatives to meet the challenge.

The soft power of data

Understanding the power of raw data for cultural institutions to create compelling stories has become easier with a new data mapping app.

The case for OpenAI

From steam power and electricity to computers and the internet, technological advancements have always disrupted labor markets, and so The Conversation USA asked five artificial intelligence researchers to discuss how large language models are likely to affect artists and knowledge workers.

The case against OpenAI

OpenAI is the latest internet fad – after blockchain, cryptocurrencies and virtual reality – to grab the attention of investors and companies looking to axe expensive employees but its faux approximations of understanding and creativity devalue, rather than add, to human culture.

Living with robots

Robots are taking on more tasks in the world’s cities and making life easier for residents but by doing so create more challenges for policymakers.