TechScape: An elite Silicon Valley school tests a tech fast
TechScape’s new writer; the surprising results of a $60k-a-year school’s tech-free week; and how to opt yourself out of AI training
Machine learning pioneers win Nobel prize in physics
Geoffrey Hinton, ‘godfather of AI’, and John Hopfield honoured for work on artificial neural networks
Science Weekly
Could AI help fight conspiracy theories? – podcast
Ian Sample speaks to Thomas Costello, an assistant professor of psychology at American University, who has published a study exploring the potential for AI chatbots to lead people away from conspiracy beliefs
Monitoring UK bank accounts for benefits fraud would be ‘huge blow to privacy’
Exclusive: privacy and rights groups fear government may resurrect Tory plan for mass algorithmic surveillance
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TechScape: Why the fake news confidence trap could be your downfall
As the Goodbye Meta AI meme proved, many of us vastly overestimate our abilities to discern what’s true online – but spotting misinformation isn’t something we can do alone
The long read
Hidden traces of humanity: what AI images reveal about our world
The long read: As generative AI advances, it is easy to see it as yet another area where machines are taking over – but humans remain at the centre of AI art, just in ways we might not expect
It’s useful that the latest AI can ‘think’, but we need to know its reasoning
John Naughton
OpenAI o1, AKA Strawberry, appears to be a significant advance, but its ‘chain of thought’ should be made public knowledge
‘People say, just get surgery, and I’m like: Bruh, this is after surgery’
Cosmetic surgery fuels the fallacy that looks bring happiness. But what is it like to live with a striking visible difference? The star of a new film about the subject shares his real-life experiences
Zuckerberg Augustus: Meta’s emperor rebrands in new clothes
AI could be an existential threat to publishers – that’s why Mumsnet is fighting back
Justine Roberts
Social workers in England begin using AI system to assist their work
