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The Black Mirror TV series explored dystopian futures, and one of its recurring themes was the idea of a digital life after death. This was the theme of no less than three episodes: Be Right Back (2013), San Junipero (2016) and Eulogy (2025). As often with science fiction, life is not far behind, and there…
In recent years, there has been much speculation about the possibility of the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI). This is an AI that would match or exceed human intelligence in most or all tasks. Such an AI would reason, learn, remember, innovate and adapt to new environments without the need for training or retraining.…
Plagiarism, presenting someone else’s words, ideas, or work as your own without giving proper credit to the source, is not new. The term was coined by the poet Martial in ancient Rome, around 80 AD. However, it has taken on a new lease of life with the widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) based…
It is now almost three years since the release of ChatGPT by OpenAI on an unsuspecting world. In this time large language models (LLMs) have had some significant impacts. Over half of all venture capital investment is now related to artificial intelligence (AI). Nvidia, which makes the graphics processing units that power most AI searches,…
In 2016, AI pioneer and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton argued that there was no point in training radiologists, since it was “obvious” that AI would outperform human radiologists within five years i.e. by 2021. As pointed out in an article in Radiology Business, the number of radiologists employed at the Mayo Clinic actually increased by…
Human beings can be devious. We are capable of trickery and deceit, of withholding information, cheating or lying. The term “Machiavellian” is used for deceitful, manipulative behaviour in pursuit of personal gain or status over ethical principles. Given the increasing role in our lives of artificial intelligence (AI) and the large language models (LLMs) used…
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has many useful applications, such as automating repetitive tasks, language translation and coding software. However, its ability to produce “deepfakes” of images, audio and video is a controversial and potentially troubling area. There are two main approaches that are used in AI to producing deepfakes. The first is a technique called…
The large language models (LLMs) that underlie generative AI rely on being trained on vast volumes of data. This may be text, images or video, but in any case, the answers that a fully trained LLM will give to you will be heavily dependent on the nature of that training data. If you are going…
The 26th of August 2025 may end up being quite a significant day when the definitive history book of AI is published. I had written previously about the unresolved issue of copyright associated with the training of large language models (LLMs), which underlie the generative AI technologies like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and also the…
Chatbots, driven by the large language models (LLMs) that power generative AI, have become a part of everyday life. Customer help desks have often been replaced by an AI assistant, or are used in conjunction with human support staff. They can be quite effective, with a Harvard study in 2025 finding that human customer service…