Software engineers across the globe are constantly adopting Docker to optimize, simplify, and streamline their development pipelines. Today, teams use the Docker platform to securely package software applications and swiftly deliver them to cloud environments. This powerful solution makes it easy to establish, test, and automatically scale isolated build environments. As a software developer yourself, […] … learn more→
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Watermarking ChatGPT, DALL-E and other generative AIs could help protect against fraud and misinformation
Shortly after rumors leaked of former President Donald Trump’s impending indictment, images purporting to show his arrest appeared online. These images looked like news photos, but they were fake. They were created by a generative artificial intelligence system. Generative AI, in the form of image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and text generators like Bard, ChatGPT, Chinchilla and LLaMA, has exploded in the […] … learn more→
Google and Microsoft are bringing AI to Word, Excel, Gmail and more. It could boost productivity for us – and cybercriminals
Google and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services. On March 16, Microsoft announced an AI-powered system called Copilot will soon be introduced to its 365 suite apps including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. The news came about two days after Google published a […] … learn more→
Evolution not revolution: why GPT-4 is notable, but not groundbreaking
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) research company behind ChatGPT and the DALL-E 2 art generator, has unveiled the highly anticipated GPT-4 model. Excitingly, the company also made it immediately available to the public through a paid service. GPT-4 is a large language model (LLM), a neural network trained on massive amounts of data to understand and generate […] … learn more→
AI information retrieval: A search engine researcher explains the promise and peril of letting ChatGPT and its cousins search the web for you
The prominent model of information access before search engines became the norm – librarians and subject or search experts providing relevant information – was interactive, personalized, transparent and authoritative. Search engines are the primary way most people access information today, but entering a few keywords and getting a list of results ranked by some unknown […] … learn more→
AI isn’t close to becoming sentient – the real danger lies in how easily we’re prone to anthropomorphize it
ChatGPT and similar large language models can produce compelling, humanlike answers to an endless array of questions – from queries about the best Italian restaurant in town to explaining competing theories about the nature of evil. The technology’s uncanny writing ability has surfaced some old questions – until recently relegated to the realm of science fiction – […] … learn more→
AI could take your job, but it can also help you score a new one with these simple tips
It was once thought physical labour jobs would be the most at risk from the rise of artificial intelligence. But recent advances suggest we can expect disruption across a vast range of sectors, including knowledge-based industries. We certainly need to have conversations about how AI will change the future of work. But perhaps we should also look […] … learn more→
Generative AI like ChatGPT reveal deep-seated systemic issues beyond the tech industry
ChatGPT has cast long shadows over the media as the latest form of disruptive technology. For some, ChatGPT is a harbinger of the end of academic and scientific integrity, and a threat to white collar jobs and our democratic institutions. How concerned should we be about generative artificial intelligence (AI)? The developers of ChatGPT describe it as “a model… which interacts in a […] … learn more→
What are the best conditions for life? Exploring the multiverse can help us find out
Is our universe all there is, or could there be more? Is our universe just one of a countless multitude, all together in an all-encompassing multiverse? And if there are other universes, what would they be like? Could they be habitable? This might feel like speculation heaped upon speculation, but it’s not as crazy as […] … learn more→
How amateur scientists are still helping make important discoveries
What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures are surrounded by glassware filled with coloured liquids. Maybe someone, with a slightly furrowed brow, is hunched over a microscope. But what this scene fails to convey is that science isn’t about labs, […] … learn more→
