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7 February 2025
Review: BBC's The Apprentice, Episode 2
The candidates are back to take on their next task, but with one fewer amongst their numbers. This week brought us drama, delusion and disputes, but here are my views on how the evening went...
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23 January 2025
Is AI taking over the art industry and is it another form of plagiarism ?
I look into how AI is currently being used within the arts and how AI could potentially affect creative careers such as traditional painters; due to this new influx of modern technology in the art world, and the ever changing definition of art.
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21 January 2025
The Responsible AI Summit: Charting a path for ethical and responsible AI
The Responsible AI Summit, organised by Joaquin Melara and Clara Lin Hawking through the Swarm Community, brought together diverse voices to address the critical challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI).
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14 January 2025
The White Heat of AI: Starmer's Wilsonian plan
PM Kier Starmer's plan to 'mainline AI' into the UK's 'veins' harks back to fellow Labour leader Harold Wilson's vision of technological progress in the 1960s. However, this time round Starmer must address new environmental and political concerns.
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25 October 2023
Unlocking the UK's AI Potential: A Political Landscape Analysis
As AI evolves, the UK's major parties chart their AI policy paths. Discover their strategies, the missing pieces, and the road to global AI leadership.
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11 August 2023
AI, Art and You: How Young Creators are Coping in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The creative industry is undergoing a shift as music, prose, artwork, essays and more can now be easily assembled by intelligence tools. Many artists are anxious that their work will eventually be replaced as corporations seek AI professionals.
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11 August 2023
AI, Art and You: Artificial Intelligence is a Threat to Young Musicians
AI can play instruments and compose music; voices of your favourite singer can be replicated with ease. This concerns young musician Kieran Barber who believes artificial intelligence is a profound threat to his future career.
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11 August 2023
AI, Art and You: Review of 'AI Encounters' at QMUL
In the midst of the AI panic, I was able to attend a fascinating exhibition ‘AI Encounters’ at Queen Mary University of London. Having never attended a show that incorporates AI, I was apprehensive to see if all my worst fears would be confirmed.
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7 February 2023
Science fiction or science future? How technology could shape the future of youth culture
Modern science fiction offers many fantastical visions of the future, but could current advances in technology revolutionise youth culture even more than we imagined?
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30 September 2022
Interview with German visual artist Timo Helgert
We speak to German visual artist Timo Helgert about his impressive artistic career and new collaboration with global technology brand, HONOR.
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2 February 2022
Review: Wombo Dream
A quirky mobile app that lets you give prompts to an AI art designer. It's limited, but fun to tinker around with.
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19 December 2021
Good To Know: How can Artificial Intelligence be used to create art?
Discover how data and code can become art
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26 November 2021
Robot artist will perform artificially generated poetry at Dante celebration
Ai-Da will use a databank of words and speech pattern analysis to create a ‘reactive’ piece to Dante’s famous poem, the Divine Comedy
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3 August 2021
Interview with tech journalist and Y7 forum member, Mel Tranfield
"As I spoke out against online abuse against women and girls and the bias within machine learning systems that ostensibly are there to protect against this, I could feel the support and approbation in that room"
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22 June 2021
CogX - How Epic Games takes us from real to unreal
How Epic Game’s Unreal engine is set to plunge us into the Metaverse.
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18 June 2021
CogX - Will 2030 be real? A discussion on Deepfakes
We’ve all been warned about deepfakes, but how real, and how imminent is the threat?
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24 May 2021
People You May Know review
“January the 19th, then, you left the house in non-running gear without your smartwatch or your smartphone, almost like… I don’t know… like you didn’t want to be tracked.”
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21 March 2021
Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect
Sometimes, the simplest things can be cause for laughter. Using a Markov chain with a corpus of characters, this was the goal of the MozFest 2021 session ‘Laughing with computers: using AI for comedic effect’, led by creative coder, Hay Kranen.