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Don't Be Too Sure About Deepfake Influencing 2024 Elections

It’s late December and the media are amping up pre-election chatter. The United States, the United Kingdom and India are all going to the polls. It’s the biggest election year in the history of the democratic process. The dominant narrative is, of course, AI. Deepfake video and audio content are threatening to laugh in the […]

ChatGPT Exposing Residual Workplace Sexism

In a UK survey conducted earlier this year, it was concluded that of the tens of millions of people using ChatGPT, 54% are male and 34%, female. There were a number of reasons given for this imbalance. Firstly, there seems to be a greater degree of mistrust in the generative AI app when it came […]

The Biggest Threat at AI Safety Summit Will be Poor Attendance

On November 1st, the first global AI safety summit will commence at Bletchley Park (pictured below) in the UK. The venue is the iconic country estate which housed the codebreakers who shortened World War 2 by years. The summit will focus on the dominant AI narrative amongst business leaders and governments in 2023. Simply, the […]

Your Medicine Delivered by Drone in Less Than an Hour

Medications from up above to your doorstep by just 60 minutes MAX. Amazon launched a drone delivery for medications in College Station, Texas, marking the first time a major retailer has offered drone delivery of medications in the U.S. Utilizing a camera-equipped drone that surpasses the traditional delivery methods like FedEx in speed. This service […]

Meta Deletes Facebook News Tab in Europe

On September 5th, Meta announced that it would be deleting the Facebook News tab in the UK, France, and Germany in early December. Meta’s move towards deprecation is driven by several factors. According to the company, “News makes up less than 3% of what people around the world see in their Facebook feed.” This implies […]

Why Kainos’ £10 Million Investment in Belfast is Bigger than Money

Kainos is a British digital design company operating in the corporate space, based in Belfast. They’re about to invest £10 million to develop the use of Generative AI in the workplace. We’re used to quoting figures in the hundreds of billions of dollars when writing about tech investments. So what makes this minnow-sized, £10 investment […]

Rest Easy, Mr.Turing

Bletchley Park to address the twelve challenges of AI The November AI summit will address the 12 challenges of AI. It’s a fitting tribute to the leader of the Allied Force’s codebreaking team, Alan Turing. The key challenges were distributed to the media to heighten the sense of urgency needed to address this rapidly advancing […]