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It’s safe to say our audience across X, Discord and Facebook were split when we asked whether they would like a robot helper. Let’s start with the naysayers. “By all means, if you want to forgo the la

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

Microsoft calls it an “AI-first productivity app for work and home”, but that will mean little to most people. It’s simply an app (desktop and mobile) that makes it easier to use Microsoft’s AI Copilo

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

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