It is now just over three years since ChatGPT was launched publicly by OpenAI, and ignited a wave of interest in AI and huge investment in companies providing AI products and services. OpenAI itself has been publicly pondering a 2026 IPO at a potential valuation of $750 billion or more. NVIDIA, which makes the specialist…
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…
Addiction to gambling is common: over 2% of UK adults being problem gamblers. Gamblers frequently bet irrationally in several ways. In the “illusion of control”, people wrongly believe they can influence the outcome of a random or chance-based event, such as a slot machine or dice roll. The “gambler’s fallacy” is the irrational belief that…
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…
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…
Will AI replace your job? The fear of technology replacing jobs is not new. William Lee patented the mechanised loom for stocking production in the 16th century. In early 19th-century England, a group of textile workers, the Luddites, rioted and destroyed machinery that was automating the production of textiles, threatening their livelihoods. Often, technological advances…
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 first use of an unmanned aerial explosive device was when the Austrian army deployed hundreds of balloons carrying explosives in their siege of Venice, which was fighting for independence against Austria. That was in 1849. Technology has moved on since then, but the use of drones has been a military tactic for longer than…