ChatGPT
Thousands of ChatGPT conversations accessible online despite efforts to erase them
Report highlights difficulty with erasing online posts once they have been made public
Can we just have one day when no one mentions AI?
The gap between hype and reality is frustratingly wide and growing
Karen Hao on AI tech bosses: ‘Many choose not to have children because they don’t think the world is going to be around much longer’
The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good
What is OpenAI’s GPT-5, and should I worry about my job?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claims AI model boasts PhD-level intelligence, but remains a technology in progress
AI’s inbuilt biases threaten to undermine women in the workplace
For many companies, the short-term promise of productivity seems to be overcoming the hard reality of long-term bias and exclusion
I am a university lecturer witnessing how AI is shrinking our ability to think
As technology improves, the temptation to use it to game the system grows
‘My jaw hit the floor’: OpenAI disables ChatGPT feature that made user prompts accessible on search engines
Private and commercially sensitive material made accessible on the internet as users fail to understand impact of chatbot feature
Posting photos of your children online just got a lot riskier
Meta is trying to work out how it can use the billions, if not trillions, of photos and posts people have uploaded to Facebook and Instagram going back decades to train its AI
We need to talk about AI’s staggering ecological impact
A ChatGPT query is estimated to consume about five times more electricity than a simple web search
Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao - Precise, insightful, troubling
Meticulously detailed profile of OpenAI and its controversial leader Sam Altman may help you pick a side in the debate between ‘doomers’ and ‘boomers’
Where are the Irish international tennis stars? Not even ChatGPT can fully answer that one
Another Wimbledon, another complete absence of Irish tennis players in the draw. But other small countries have contenders
Using ChatGPT to write an essay is a bit like using a forklift to lift weights
Just as you can’t get someone, or something, to work out for you, there is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf
I have had more wives than Henry VIII. It’s news to me too
Artificial intelligence has trouble distinguishing fact from fiction, so it has to spew out absurd ‘factoids’ instead
I love Wikipedia so much, I hardly even minded when it killed me off
ChatGPT is so unreliable as to be effectively worse than useless. No-one would say that about Wikipedia
Are we human or are we spammer?
As technology becomes better, a return to face-to-face encounters looks more likely
US pressure has complicated efforts to regulate AI, but Europe must act now
AI threatens the ability of news publishers to generate revenue from their content and, by extension, undermines the media pluralism essential to democracy
Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work
Don’t be fooled: AI is a long way from being able to think for itself
Large language models are still far from multilayered thinking
Planning a trip abroad? The tech essentials that could help it go more smoothly
A little tech can go a long way when you travel
Dublin’s strangest museum opens its doors and TDs express fears at Oireachtas AI committee
Overheard: Dubliner Paul Mangan’s collection of bizarre items grew so much his friends joked he should open a museum - so he did
Are fears of an AI slash and burn of white-collar roles well founded?
Artificial intelligence is starting to have a profound effect on work and employment, though some believe much human labour will be disrupted rather than displaced
Impact of AI on Ireland’s energy demands ‘not going to be as steep’ as feared
Officials from Research Ireland appeared before newly formed Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence
AI still key for Apple, but Siri updates take a back seat
Company is expanding its partnership with OpenAI
OpenAI’s Sarah Friar: ‘Am I worried about deep fakes? Yes’
Down-born tech executive Sarah Friar was looking forward to early retirement from the business world; then Open AI called
How to stop your posts, photographs and other data from being sucked into AI machines
There are ways to ensure your data is not used by social media and search platforms to train their artificial intelligence models
It pays to use AI on the sly at work
That’s why companies need to think of ways to encourage open adoption
Can AI agents replace office workers? We put them to the test with some routine tasks
Apps from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and more were asked to write emails, book travel and summarise the news. Here’s how they fared
OpenAI chief Sam Altman: ‘This is genius-level intelligence’
The tech entrepreneur on the risks and opportunities of AI, his dispute with Elon Musk and why he has the ‘most important job maybe in history’
Artificial intelligence already in use in many parts of public service as guidelines are announced
Minister Jack Chambers told launch event how AI can ‘radically improve’ efficiency and effectiveness
Will the US respond to AI rivals in the same way it took on Soviet Union in the space race?
America's desire to put man on the moon brought about huge cultural change
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