Still from 'All watched over by machines of loving grace' by Memo Akten, 2021. Created using custom AI software. Memo Akten, CC BY-SAIn 2022, an AI-generated work of art won the Colorado State Fair’s art competition. The artist, Jason Allen, had used Midjourney – a generative AI system trained on art scraped from the internet – to create the piece. The process was far from fully automated: Allen went through some 900 iterations over 80 hours to create and refine his submission. Yet his use of AI
A pioneering British-Canadian computer scientist has quit his job at Google and is issuing dire warnings about the rapid advancement of artificially intelligence. But some experts in the AI field caution against such dystopian visions.
As a social media user, you can be eager to share content. You can also try to judge whether it is true or not. But for many people it is difficult to prioritise both these things at once. That’s the conclusion of a new experiment led by MIT scholars, which finds that even considering whether