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

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

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is the fastest growing company in the history of capitalism. In 2022 Sam Altman, the wonderkid CEO of OpenAI, described prospects for AI bluntly: “The good case is

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

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

Many of us now ask AI all sorts of questions about our health. Dr C says it can help but, in certain situations, it could be dangerous