On 30th July 2026 the US State Department gave a presentation at an international development conference in Brazil. It included a map showing various African countries that it had the potential to invest in. This map quickly attracted worldwide attention as it was photographed by some delegates at the conference and sent to various media…
The growth of interest in AI has been a global phenomenon over the last three years. However, while large language model (LLM) adoption has been rapid, there is an open question as to whether the industry’s pricing model is sustainable. Is current LLM pricing a steady state business model or a temporary subsidy? Consider the…
Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, based on large language models (LLMs) has had a seismic impact on the world since ChatGPT’s public release in November 2022. Half of all internet content is now AI-generated, over half of all venture capital investment is AI-related, and NVIDIA became the most valuable company in the world in July…
Chat GPT 5, released in August 2025, has produced a range of entertaining hallucinations that went viral, including an image of US presidents, including “Richard Ninun” (instead of Nixon), seemingly born in 1969 but died in 1974, just five years later (Nixon was actually born in 1913 and died in 1994). The very same image…
The English poet William Cowper wrote that “God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform” in his 1773 poem “Light Shining out of Darkness”. The same could be said of large language models (LLMs), the technology underpinning generative AI. LLMs are capable of extremely fluent conversation and answer questions with authority and confidence,…
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…
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…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on the creative arts. This does not just apply to books and articles, but also to artistic images, music and video. Large language models (LLMs), the underlying basis of generative AI, are capable of writing a poem, a song or an essay, and generating an image, cartoon…
One aspect of generative AI that seems curious is the different rates of progress that the large language models (LLMs) have made in general-purpose text generation compared to their progress in image creation. It is now getting on for three years since the release of Open AI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, yet the progress of…