Wising up or dumbing down?

Proponents of generative AI claim it will offer personalised content for schools, expedite writing and information analysis, and push the frontiers of scientific discovery, but if machines start thinking for us, will we have more time to think more deeply or have no need to think at all?

Machines and men

Narrow AI can enhance us by freeing us from routine tasks, enabling us to concentrate on higher level strategic goals and improving our productivity, but as artificial intelligence expands in capabilities, we have to make sure it serves the interests of humanity, not the other way around.

Will AI kill creative jobs?

Firms will always replace humans with cheaper, tireless machines if that generates greater profits, and AI is offering the chance to churn out generic faux-creative material which was once the purview of real artists.

Copyright in the age of AI

Writers have launched a spate of copyright disputes against the companies training AI datasets on their copyright-protected works without their knowledge of permission, but new solutions may have to be found in a world transformed by AI.

National (artificial) intelligence

Regulating AI to maximise Australia’s national security capabilities and minimise the risks presented to them will require focus, caution and intent.

Predicting the future with AI

Researchers and data scientists at The Florey Institute have found a way to harness artificial intelligence to improve people’s accuracy at forecasting future events.

Teacher’s pet

ChatGPT may match or even exceed the average grade of university students when answering assessment questions across a range of subjects including computer science, political studies, engineering, and psychology.

Malicious AI arrives on the dark web

In recent weeks the dark web has become a breeding ground for a new generation of standalone AI-powered tools and applications designed to cater to a cybercriminal’s every illicit need.

Judgement day

A lot of people would welcome the widespread replacement of lawyers by AI, but the legal profession – like every group of workers threatened by mechanisation or automation before it – is gearing up to argue for its indispensability.

ChatGPT, like Soylent Green, is people

AI chatbots like ChatGPT rely on large language models trained on vast amounts of uncredited internet data to predict likely words – or pixels – in a given sequence, and would be nothing without the human generated data they rely on.

Regulating AI

Regulation was once a dirty word in tech companies around the world but some of the largest players in AI are now asking for controls, if only to cement their own power.

ChatGPT NGO

Like other internet fads before it, AI chatbots are touted as the answer to every problem, so how well do they work with the kind of issues facing NGOs in the the developing world?