Music has evolved over the centuries, from the first bone flutes (dating back to at least 38,000 BC) to the invention of the piano in Italy in 1700. The theremin, invented in 1920 by a Russian physicist, is played by a performer moving their hands near two antennas. However, it was only in more recent…
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…
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been a subject portrayed in movies, from ground-breaking films like Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) to the robot character Gort in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and the lovable Robbie in Forbidden Planet (1956). In recent times, we have seen the artificial intelligence HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey…
As generative artificial intelligence (AI) flooded into the public consciousness in late 2022, corporations wrestled with how best to utilise and control it at work. Initial hopes of productivity improvements were tempered by the realisation that the public chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude were executing prompts on their servers. This content, which at work could…
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…
All generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity are based on artificial neural networks that are trained on huge amounts of data, such as text or images. The large language models (LLMs) that underlie this technology are voracious in their need to ingest training data in massive quantities. Some of the…