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The Latest Articles by John Naughton

Caw-blimey, GPT-4 may be just an AI language parrot, but it’s no birdbrain

The advanced large language model’s ability to reason is a feather in the cap for developers of generative AI technology

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If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go?

Elon Musk is wrecking his platform, but it has invented a medium for catchy soundbites that is too invaluable to lose

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Chatbots are social media on steroids – trapping us in an even more tangled web

Big tech now has even more to answer for. But salvation could come from an unlikely source

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You think the internet is a clown show now? You ain’t seen nothing yet…

Social media platforms are laying off their ‘trust and safety’ teams. Brace yourself for a new wave of unfettered misinformation and abuse

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There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data

CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

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China and physics may soon shatter our dreams of endless computing power

Silicon chip transistors are so small they are approaching their physical limits. And the firm that makes many of them may be somewhat hampered if Xi Jinping decides to invade Taiwan

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A lawyer got ChatGPT to do his research, but he isn’t AI’s biggest fool

The emerging technology is causing pratfalls all over – not least tech bosses begging for someone to regulate them

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AI will be everywhere, but its rise will be mundane not apocalyptic

To understand how ChatGPT will infiltrate the world, cast your mind back to Google’s decision to map the entire planet

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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott Shapiro review – a gripping study of five extraordinary hacks

A professor of law who’s a computer geek carves an undaunted path through the conceptual and technical undergrowth in this illuminating tour of cyberspace’s dark side

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When the tech boys start asking for new regulations, you know something’s up

The OpenAI CEO says his industry needs government intervention. Whether it’s a ploy or a plea for help, we should be concerned

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A moment’s silence, please, for the death of Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse

Meta sank tens of billions into its CEO’s virtual reality dream, but what will he do next?

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Power and Progress review – why the tech-equals-progress narrative must be challenged

In an important new book, US economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson propose ways in which digital technology can be repurposed for human flourishing as well as private profit

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‘A race it might be impossible to stop’: how worried should we be about AI?

Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note

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I’m glad you’ve bought an electric vehicle. But your conscience isn’t clean

First, you’ve got to drive a long way before you overcome your EV’s embedded carbon debt. And then there’s the trouble with the minerals in its battery…

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Thank the Lords someone is worried about AI-controlled weapons systems

While politics as usual dominates the Commons, thankfully a few people from the upper chamber are thinking about the big picture

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Rupert Murdoch was ever a master strategist, but he’s beginning to lose his grip

The $787m Fox News settlement was money well spent in saving the media mogul from an embarrassing ordeal

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Can China keep generative AI under its control? Well, it contained the internet

When the Chinese embraced capitalism, the west predicted it would crumble. Then that the web would break it. We may be proved wrong again

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Elon Musk hates journalists but journalists love Twitter. Where does that leave us?

The billionaire’s hamfisted handling of his new toy won’t much matter as long as politicians and media types remain bewitched

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As AI weaponry enters the arms race, America is feeling very, very afraid

Will technological advantages be enough for China to replace the US as the world’s AI superpower?

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Programmers, beware: ChatGPT has ruined your magic trick

The generative AI tool can write code on request, making the specialist skill of programming open to everyone

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Yes, it’s crazy to have TikTok on official phones. But it’s not good for any of us

Fears for data security lie behind recent government bans on the Chinese-owned app, but zombie scrolling has health dangers too

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You wait ages for an AI chatbot to come along, then a whole bunch turn up. Why?

The fact that ChatGPT isn’t the only machine-learning program out there is down to the way in which tech breakthroughs arise

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The SVB debacle has exposed the hypocrisy of Silicon Valley

US tech innovators have a culture of regarding government as an innovation-blocking nuisance. But when Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, investors screamed for state protection

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Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the ‘enshittification’ of the internet

There is a new word for the degradation of the internet, but it’s been happening for years. Why do we tolerate it?

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Misplaced fears of an ‘evil’ ChatGPT obscure the real harm being done

Our tendency to humanise large language models and AI is daft – let’s worry about corporate grabs and environmental damage

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