Yesterday
- Analysis
- Tech Observed
In love with a bot? OpenAI data shows we are entering sci-fi territory
Humans falling in love with chatbots, and AI platforms hatching ‘catastrophic schemes’ are among concerns being monitored and managed by researchers at OpenAI.
- Paul Smith
July
- Opinion
- AI
Why Australia needs its own AI large language model
If we are to retain our economic and cultural sovereignty, Australia needs to develop AI that reflects Australian values.
- Anton van den Hengel
Look out Google, here comes SearchGPT
OpenAI has unveiled a prototype of SearchGPT, a new web search chatbot that could rival Google, and change how people navigate the online world.
- Gerrit De Vynck
AI ‘final nail in coffin’ of Australia’s creative sector
The group representing the nation’s creative workers says the technology could utterly devastate their already diminished earning power.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
June
Nine considers expelling AI bots from checking out its content
Major publishers including the New York Times already restrict what services such as ChatGPT can see. Others say AI “scraping” is an “extinction-level event”.
- Nick Bonyhady
- Opinion
- AI
It’s bubbles like AI that make the tech world go around
From telegraph fever to the first internet bust, irrational over-investment creates profitable technology businesses that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.
- Rohan Silva
- Opinion
- AI
Better late than now: how Apple’s AI could have stayed in longer
It tells you something when even Apple, the company that rose to greatness on the back of lateness, has to come out with a product that isn’t quite ready.
- John Davidson
How this senior consultant uses AI to get more work done
Kearney’s Anshuman Sengar says using generative AI tools to summarise meetings, write emails and research topics has helped him become more effective at work.
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- AI
Investors give a belated cheer to Apple’s AI foray
The tech giant’s strategy unveil has pushed its share price to records this week. But, in the background, safety and privacy concerns are also rising.
- Karen Maley
- Analysis
- AI
OpenAI insiders warn of a ‘reckless’ race for dominance
The campaign comes at a rough moment for the artificial intelligence giant. It is still recovering from an attempted coup last year and faces legal battles with content creators.
- Kevin Roose
- Opinion
- AI
Tim Cook controls the iPhone, so he’s now the new AI kingmaker
Apple gets to decide which company gets access to the more than 2 billion active users and on what terms.
- Dave Lee
May
- Opinion
- AI
This is how the Silicon Valley geeks could destroy Hollywood
Sam Altman’s obsessive pursuit of Scarlett Johansson for his new chatbot has helped end an 18-month media honeymoon for AI companies.
- Andrew Orlowski
American chatbots: oversexed, overhyped and over here
In just two weeks, Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have each previewed AI chatbots that critics say are as dangerous as they are impressive.
- John Davidson
Scarlett Johansson takes on Sam Altman over ‘eerily’ similar AI voice
The Hollywood actor says she was “shocked” by the use of a voice “eerily similar” to her own in the latest worry for the ChatGPT maker.
- Rachel Metz
Google steals OpenAI’s thunder with something 15 times bigger
The new version of Gemini can write poems about objects it’s seen, or even tell the user where it last saw her glasses.
- John Davidson
- Updated
- AI
‘Like AI from the movies:’ New ChatGPT arrives
The launch was not without some snags: after coaching a researcher through solving an algebra problem, it said: “Wow, that’s quite the outfit you’ve got on.”
- Paul Smith
April
Data centre giant AirTrunk strikes major Hong Kong renewables deal
The surge in energy demand by data centres, now turbo-charged by the emergence of AI, is straining the capacity of electricity grids around the world.
- Nick Lenaghan
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
Is this one word the shortcut to detecting AI-written work?
The word ‘delve’ has taken off in medical research papers, but the Aussie academic behind the finding says using AI is nothing to be ashamed of.
- Nick Bonyhady
March
- Analysis
- Tech Observed
Shock as AI founders defect to Microsoft after raising $US1.3b
The AI sector has been stunned by the founders of an AI start-up defecting to Microsoft less than a year after raising $US1.3 billion to take on OpenAI.
- Updated
- Paul Smith
OpenAI hits back at Musk over for-profit plans
The ChatGPT maker says the Tesla boss wanted the top job and control of the board, as a feud over the AI start-up deepens.
- George Hammond
