Over the past few years, you might have noticed that an increasingly worrying number of social media users are actually bots imitating humans. They’re usually fairly easy to spot, but avoiding them altogether is virtually impossible. Well, a new social media app called Aspect takes all the guesswork out of the equation with a platform…
In this bizarre new social media app, every user other than you is AI Read More »
Generative AI products are getting so good that they can clone your voice with just a few samples. OpenAI has already produced such a tool, and I immediately thought voice cloning might be the most dangerous thing coming out of genAI app development. Sure, the ability to clone voices can come in handy in a…
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Sharp Europe sells electronic devices, appliances and equiment both to people at home and to businesses. Its business offerings have now expanded with managed services and IT support services. Matt Riley is the company’s data protection and information security officer. He has responsibilities both in the security of Sharp internally, and commercial opportunities. Within the…
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In its 2024 general election manifesto, Labour promised to support the tech and digital sectors through a new industrial strategy and set about planning rules to boost digital infrastructure.The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) has now issued a report, Governing in the age of AI: Reimagining the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), detailing how…
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App development harnessing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) might be democratising coding and potentially freeing up resource, but organisations must carefully manage contributors without prior coding experience. According to Jon Puleston, vice-president of innovation in the profiles division at Kantar, even an accurate synthetic persona based on a data set of 25,000 real people containing 250…
Rise of the citizen developer: GenAI and the democratisation of code Read More »
While data has the potential to boost the UK economy significantly, the links between data and AI are not sufficiently understood. If we are to seize this potential and position the UK as a global AI superpower, as the National AI Strategy aims to do, we must get a grip on data infrastructure in order…
Data is the key to unlocking the UK’s AI potential Read More »
The financial results of the world’s biggest three hyperscale cloud companies have seen Amazon, Google and Microsoft all credit growing customer demand for artificial intelligence (AI) services for boosting their respective profit, revenue and market share totals. The downside to this growth, particularly where Google and Microsoft are concerned, is that it appears to be…
I’m a longtime iPhone user who is dying to upgrade to an iPhone 16. I might go for a non-Pro device for the first time, something I’ve told readers before. The iPhone 14 Pro proved to me that I no longer need a Pro iPhone.I’m looking for three things from the iPhone 16: better battery…
I might skip the iPhone 16 entirely if Apple delays its Siri AI launch Read More »
Having ChatGPT integrated into iOS 18 will be a big deal for iPhone users. Apple’s language models can’t currently offer chatbot functionality on par with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others. If they could, Apple would simply send those complex Siri prompts to its own “AppleGPT” rather than partnering with other AI service providers.The partnership is…
How ChatGPT users will benefit from the Apple AI deal even if they don’t have iPhones Read More »
Samsung was the first smartphone vendor to make a big deal about generative AI features on mobile devices this year. It partnered with Google and others to launch the Galaxy AI suite on the Galaxy S24, turning AI features into a big selling point for the new flagships. A few months later, Samsung started bringing…
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