Review: M3GAN
In theory, M3GAN should have been a great film. A widely marketed, piercingly relevant sci-fi horror that draws on current fears over the incursion of AI into daily life, in the form…
It’s time to put the brakes on AI
Kelly McKernan, a 36-year-old artist from Nashville specialising in watercolour and acrylic gouache recently discovered that her art had been used to train Stable diffusion. This keen student was a…
Putting the human in humanoid: on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
The arrival of a new Ishiguro novel is undoubtedly a main event in any year’s literary calendar. This month, the Nobel and Booker Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro released his…
AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution
It seems as though the thousands of voices protesting the awful, human contribution to climate change have finally been answered. To an extent. The US government has been making use…
What effect do codes of ethics have in software development?
It seems that most professions, whether it be law or chemical engineering, have their own ethical codes. However, those fields that have seen recent developments are only now discovering their…
Student Spotlight: Like Drowning
‘What is the theatre of the future?’ wondered Camila McMoody. She, Sara Harvey and Penelope Hervouet were interested in experimental theatre and looking for a show to bring to the…
Questions of citizenship and humanity surround Sophia the humanoid robot
Sophia the humanoid robot designed by Hanson Robotics has become a powerful international figure. It spoke at the United Nations, traveled the world chatting with talk show hosts, and even…
AI can identify Alzheimer’s a decade before symptoms show
Artifical Intelligence (AI) has been programmed to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans to recognise the brains of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. Using these scans, it can even predict…
