LAST SUMMER, LANCE JOHNSON WOKE up in the middle of the night with excruciating pain in his lower right side. He initially blamed it on the pizza and ice cream he had enjoyed the night before. But fiv

AI can be brilliant when put to proper use, but it also has some major downsides

Last summer, we prompted eight AI platforms to magic up a range of digital images (see issue 368, p78). This time we’ve returned to the subject with a focus on more general tasks, covering business wr

Although AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Microsoft Copilot have their limitations, once you understand what they really are then you can start to embrace what they can do. Long story short

Across our four tests, no single model emerged as the undisputed leader in every task. Claude impressed with its polished, engaging newsletter, and it, like Gemini, produced flawless code on the first

Spotting cancer with computer vision. Pulling together weather data for better predictions. Solving long-running research quandaries such as protein folding. These are useful tasks for AI that benefit