Writer, adviser, poet, bot: How ChatGPT could transform politics

Paris (AFP) – The AI bot ChatGPT has passed exams, written poetry, and deployed in newsrooms, and now politicians are seeking it out -- but experts are warning against rapid uptake of a tool also famous for fabricating "facts". The chatbot, released last November by US firm OpenAI, has quickly moved centre stage in politics -- …

How AI ‘revolution’ is shaking up journalism

Paris (AFP) – Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet. But many commentators believe journalism is on the cusp of a revolution where mastery of algorithms and AI tools that generate content will …

At San Francisco expo, AI ‘sorry’ for destroying humanity

San Francisco (AFP) – Advances in artificial intelligence are coming so hard and fast that a museum in San Francisco, the beating heart of the tech revolution, has imagined a memorial to the demise of humanity. "Sorry for killing most of humanity person with smile cap and mustache," says a monitor welcoming a visitor to the …

Will AI replace developers

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field that involves the development of intelligent machines that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence with advancements in machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision. AI has become increasingly capable of performing complex tasks that were once thought to be exclusively human. In the context …

Tech wars turning cycling into Formula One

Paris (AFP) – Bike technology has become so important to elite road racing teams that the sport has, one rider said, "become like Formula One". When the first significant stage race of the season, Paris-Nice, starts on Sunday, riders will be watching their rivals and complaining that others have better bikes. Star bike: Six days after …