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

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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It is the best of times! It is the worst of times! Charles Dickens didn’t do headlines, but if he did, the current debates about AI (Artificial Intelligence) in our lives and culture would be made for

AI is now reaching into every corner of our lives. We can –and must–very carefully choose how we engage with it