ChatGPT

When I opened the email telling me I’d been accepted to run the London Marathon, I felt elated. And then terrified. Barely six months on from my last marathon, I knew how dedicated I’d have to be to keep running day after day, week after week, month after month, through rain, cold, tiredness, grumpiness, and

Soon after ChatGPT broke the internet, it sparked an all-too-familiar question for new technologies: What can it do for education?  Many feared it would worsen plagiarism and further damage an already decaying humanism in the academy, while others lauded its potential to spark creativity and handle mundane educational tasks.  Of course, ChatGPT is just one of many advances in

Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Microsoft said Monday that it is entering a “third phase” of its relationship with ChatGPT developer OpenAI through a multibillion-dollar investment. But the deal may come with a price for users, too: a $42 monthly “professional” tier subscription that sources say OpenAI is testing among early adopters. In 2019, Microsoft

Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock / Ascannio) If you have spent any time on social media recently, you will probably have seen countless videos showing the types of things that ChatGPT can do. Launched at the end of 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT for free in a research preview format.However, while the company only offers this

2023 embarks the beginning of a new era. The world’s greatest heroin addict, sorry, I meant detective, Sherlock Holmes, is now in the public domain in the US (has been in the UK since 2000. Which has caused some legal issues over the past 23 years). ‍This means now, in key markets, no one holds the copyright

New York City's Department of Education announced a ban on the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT — which some have warned could inspire more student cheating — from its schools’ devices and networks. Jenna Lyle, a spokesperson for the department, said the decision to ban ChatGPT, which is able to generate conversational responses to text prompts