itβs a newsletter autumn. Happy 1st of October to those who celebrateβ¨ Jess is currently away, so Iβll be taking on your newsletter for today. This week, we look at a win for green tech here in the UK, photos from danger zones around the world, the latest online discourse around books and films, and more . . . πβοΈShifting tides After 142 years, the UK ends its reliance...
AI can be a great tool, but what happens when these tools are not well trained? In recent months, a series of new tools that use Artificial Intelligence have emerged, including ChatGPT and Gemini.Β Each one of them has been marketed as having the ability to make our lives easier. Whether itβs creating essays for us in seconds, locating reputable sources of information, or even creating illustrations for us β AI...
Wondering whether employers use AI to scan our CVs these days? Our career coach has the answers you seek. Question: Do employers use AI to scan applicant CVs? Yes, some employers use AI to scan applicant CVs, and they have done for some time, usually in a very basic way: looking for keywords that match the job description. However, many employers donβt use AI to scan application CVs. These are smaller employers...
maybe we're all getting too carried away
Good day to all you lovely people! π
Off the back of a buzzing bank holiday weekend in London, thereβs quite a lot to cover in todayβs newsletter. Hope youβre all feeling well and ready to tuck into a more varied edition, covering a range of topics from music and beauty to AI and itβs impacts on our planet.
πΆ Music + pop culture
No longer just the stuff of Spike Jonzeβs storytelling, users of GTP-40 β OpenAIβs latest generation chatbot that speaks aloud in its own voice β have been forming emotional relationships with it. Written and directed by Spike Jonze, Her is an ahead-of-its-time contemporary romance film that explores the state of modern human relationships. Released ten years ago, it follows the story of a man who falls in...
The platform once deemed a barometer for quality responses to user queries has lost its way. AI is largely responsible β in more ways than one. Have you ever heard of βDead Internet Theory?β It subscribes to the idea that both bots and content created by algorithms will soon overtake the digital presence and volume of human works online. Weβve written about it in detail previously. Apprehension about that prospect has...
OpenAI claims to have a tool capable of unearthing instances where AI text generators have been used. Will it ever see the light of day?
OpenAI has crafted a clever tool to sniff out writing conjured by ChatGPT, but they're having second thoughts about unleashing it onto the world β because, why shoot yourself in the foot?
This AI detective follows the demise of their previous AI Text Classifier, which
Londonβs Prince Charles cinema was set to debut the worldβs first film with a fully AI-generated script, but the project was scrapped after more than 200 people filed complaints. Artificial Intelligence software such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E has sparked worry amongst creatives since they first burst on the scene. Artists have raised concerns about whether AI-generated paintings, photography, or music would eventually compete with work created by humans. The ethical...
With the ceaseless growth of AI since 2022, conspiracies surrounding the so-called βDead Internet Theoryβ have grown stronger. First thingβs first, though, what the hell is it and does it have any credibility? Is this an online rabbit hole worth getting lost in? Is it pure storm in a teacup? Did a human even write this article? So many questions. If you spend any significant amount of time on Twitter (X)...
In an effort to reduce low-quality articles and unoriginal content, Google is making big changes to its search algorithm. A new core update to Googleβs search traffic algorithm could have wide-reaching implications for SEO experts and copywriters. The company is further boosting its low-quality downranking project that it began testing in 2022. In a statement that year, Google explained that it had βlaunched thousands of updates to Search based...
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