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latest news & developmentsAI’s hidden environmental cost: UN report flags massive water, energy and land footprint
AI’s rapid growth is driving major water, energy, land and e-waste impacts, raising environmental justice concerns worldwide
Never mind the botlickers, ‘AI’ is just normal technology
We desire existential certainty in this world of complexity and amid our sense of powerlessness, but turning to the new oracles isn’t a solution
AI Armageddon is coming. Why aren’t we panicking?
Artificial intelligence will replace most jobs and create few. The future is bleak – except for the rich
AI didn’t kill writing — we did
How AI writing tools, especially ChatGPT, are changing the rhythm, tone and even punctuation of our prose, one em dash at a time
Saint AI, is it really the all-knowing oracle?
Artificial intelligence’s large language models are not the new saviour they are thought to be – they fail to love us equally
Artificial intelligence costs the Earth
Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy
UNESCO warns that AI technology risks spreading Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism
The organisation’s report highlighted instances where hackers had rigged chatbots to spread Nazi ideology
A strong South Africa Al plan could protect economy – and people
The technology has huge implications for the country and the world. Experts say if South Africa fails to prepare, it will be preparing to fail
Lawyer ‘dodges a bullet’ after relying on non-existent ChatGPT cases in court papers
The case shows the dangers associated with the irresponsible usage of AI
‘Haunted’ ChatGPT cranks out gibberish for hours
ChatGPT was giving ‘peculiar’ responses, generating non-existent words, incomplete sentences and general gobbledygook
SA’s youth and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Adaptability is an essential strategy for success in a tech-driven world
Alarm around AI is not warranted
South African university students are using AI to help them understand work, not avoid it, according to research
The artificial intelligence endgame
Is (computer) science the new organised ‘religion’ re-colonising the world?
Effective methods of teaching students in the age of AI
Students need to learn creative and critical thinking, so they can work with AI, while they are at university and in the world of work
African researchers warn against AI hype
If anything, the programmes in their current incarnation are more like sophisticated parrots, incapable of original thought