AI is smart, just don’t ask it to speak the Irish language
Chatbots inability to grasp Irish underscores gaps in AI systems
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Top companies keep talking about AI – but can’t explain the upsides
Analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
Is sovereign AI the answer for Ireland?
Countries are increasingly looking to retain control over sensitive data rather leave it in the hands of private operators driven by profit
Students’ complicated relationship with AI: ‘Avoiding using it probably put me at a bit of a disadvantage’
As students get stuck into the academic year, there are strong feelings about whether artificial intelligence should play a role in their education
AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities
Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients
AI the catalyst in online agents mending fences with Ryanair, says O’Leary
Airline’s deal with Skyscanner is latest in series of agreements with ‘screenscrapers’ that Ryanair used to vilify and pursue in court
A teenage suicide in the US might prove a tipping point for AI regulation
No robot should be talking to a teenager about suicidal ideation
College tech tips: Laptop or tablet? Plus, power packs, headphones and AI advice
As you head into the new college year, what tech essentials should you invest in and what are simply nice to have?
ChatGPT rides to the rescue for Google investors
By shaking confidence in Google’s dominance, AI gave a judge a reason to tread lightly despite finding it to be an illegal monopolist
AI doesn’t always have the answer. So how do we teach our children about it?
The youngest members of the family have grown up with the belief that technology can do almost anything
We made a big mistake allowing our children to use social media. Now we’re doing it again with AI
Family of US teen is suing Open AI, alleging its ChatGPT played a role in encouraging him to take his life
How the race for total AI domination is revisiting the worst of human history
In the News podcast: Engineer, journalist and AI expert Karen Hao on the true human and environmental cost of generative AI
From personalised tutoring to improved accessibility, why AI can democratise higher education
Artificial intelligence is to be embraced rather than feared, but educators and students cannot ignore its dark side
Taking teachers seriously as professionals would solve some big problems in Irish education
Primary and post-primary schools are struggling to fill teaching posts and having to resort to employing unqualified people. Why?
Before the golden age of AI must come the crash, history suggests
Ninety-five per cent of companies surveyed getting zero return from their investments in generative AI, research finds
The lost art of admitting what you don’t know
Even LLMs are starting to show this worrying human tendency
Forget the futuristic dystopias: AI is changing the world right now
The backlash against changes to ChatGPT reveals how it is being used by users in their daily lives
The lure of AI companionship poses a real danger to vulnerable people
The same online forces that nudged Gen Z into a pit of loneliness using algorithms are selling AI companionship to them
ChatGPT-5: Maybe Sam Altman should cool the jets on new AI iterations
OpenAI’s latest upgrade of its AI tool is effectively being tested by 700m users while having potential for adverse real-world impact
Thousands of ChatGPT conversations accessible online despite efforts to erase them
Report highlights difficulty with erasing online posts once they have been made public
Can we just have one day when no one mentions AI?
The gap between hype and reality is frustratingly wide and growing
Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’
The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good
What is OpenAI’s GPT-5, and should I worry about my job?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims AI model boasts PhD-level intelligence, but remains a technology in progress
AI’s inbuilt biases threaten to undermine women in the workplace
For many companies, the short-term promise of productivity seems to be overcoming the hard reality of long-term bias and exclusion
I am a university lecturer witnessing how AI is shrinking our ability to think
As technology improves, the temptation to use it to game the system grows
‘My jaw hit the floor’: OpenAI disables ChatGPT feature that made user prompts accessible on search engines
Private and commercially sensitive material made accessible on the internet as users fail to understand impact of chatbot feature
Posting photos of your children online just got a lot riskier
Meta is trying to work out how it can use the billions, if not trillions, of photos and posts people have uploaded to Facebook and Instagram going back decades to train its AI
We need to talk about AI’s staggering ecological impact
A ChatGPT query is estimated to consume about five times more electricity than a simple web search
Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao - Precise, insightful, troubling
Meticulously detailed profile of OpenAI and its controversial leader Sam Altman may help you pick a side in the debate between ‘doomers’ and ‘boomers’
Where are the Irish international tennis stars? Not even ChatGPT can fully answer that one
Another Wimbledon, another complete absence of Irish tennis players in the draw. But other small countries have contenders
Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a forklift to lift weights
Just as you can’t get someone, or something, to work out for you, there is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf
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