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‘It’s cool’ isn’t a good reason for scientists to develop harmful technologies

Unthinkable: Regulating generative AI is important in its own right, but it’s also a dummy run for the existential threat of artificial general intelligence. This will go beyond mimicking human intelligence to conquering it

We are up to our necks in a rising tide of AI-generated slop

A person who thinks a book can be ‘edited’ by a piece of software is a person who simply doesn’t know what editing is

Ireland can cope with data centres and should build more, Greencoat says

International Energy Agency expects data centres to consume 32% of total electricity in Ireland by 2026

Chris Horn: AI is 90% marketing, 10% reality, and its true business impact has yet to be proven

AI large language models can give an illusion of intelligence but in fact it is inherently limited in high-level reasoning

Irish executives eager to adopt AI despite trust and scalability anxieties

KPMG survey points to ‘top-down push’ to implement fast-moving technologies

A super-charged technology threatens to destroy the integrity of the Leaving Cert

Additional assessment components worth 40% are being introduced at a time when AI tools are developing rapidly and relentlessly

Big tech has been stealthily training its AI models. Creatives are finally waking up to the dangers. Are they too late?

More than 20,000 artists, writers, composers and other cultural creatives are objecting to unlicensed scraping of their work in the AI space race

Mark O’Connell: Had this technology existed when I was a student, I might not have been above using it

Generative AI: If I hadn’t created this ‘podcast’, it would have taken me a few minutes before I realised something was amiss

AI may be better than humans at reading cancer scans. Could bots have better bedside manner too?

A growing body of research shows that generative AI has considerable potential in gathering patient information and helping doctors with diagnostics

My procrastination became like a part-time job itself. Then I turned to ChatGPT

Procrastination and rumination are a curse of office life – don’t be afraid to ask for help

How AI is generating a ‘sea of sameness’ in job applications

New technologies can help applicants stand out – or kill any sense of individuality and thwart both them and potential employers

OpenAI closes $6.6bn funding haul with investment from Microsoft and Nvidia

Company behind ChatGPT could now be valued at $157bn

ChatGPT on campus: ‘Silicon Valley overlords have unleashed one of their ingenious, idiotic products, dismissing the downsides’

Trinity College Dublin lecturer and author Kevin Power gives his take on students’ use of AI to help them with exam papers

AI tools could revolutionise education but leave Gaelscoileanna behind

Irish-language schools may be faced with an impossible choice: embrace second-rate AI or forgo the potential benefits of automation

Leveraging GPT to help engineers and manufacturers adopt AI

Anthony McLoughlin and start-up Better Futures have set out to build a bridge to make it easier and cost-effective for engineers to identify how AI could improve what they do

Apple’s plan to focus on the personal side of AI takes centre stage after years of development

Tech giant struggles to marry user privacy and data control with access to a locked-down cloud environment when required

Will AI take over art? ‘No amount of sentimentality is going to stop it from happening’

This lifting of the barrier for AI in the art and entertainment industries might sound exciting for some, but for others the developments are setting off alarm bells

We asked ChatGPT to write like Marian Keyes, John Boyne and Paul Howard. Now they rate the results

The chatbot takes mere seconds to come up with its versions of these bestselling authors’ work. How convincing are they?

Irish composer Jennifer Walshe on AI music: ‘If you came up with the idea for I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again, is that art?’

The Oxford professor of composition’s long use of artificial intelligence in her work makes her a good judge of its merits and its dangers

What is Apple Intelligence, and how do I get it on my smartphone?

Q&A: Apple unveiled its new AI this week. But what does it mean for end users?

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