25th March 2024

Nature has published a news feature by Ananya exploring the work of researchers who looking into racial and gender bias in AI image generators, and takes a look at some of the solutions that have been proposed. Source: Nature.

Kyle Wiggers in TechCrunch takes a look at the growth in AI chatbots and highlighting a range of issues, from copyright breaches to apps that encourage academic dishonesty (and that are no more than "thinly veiled pipelines to premium services". Source: TechCrunch

Critical AI is a new interdisciplinary journal focused on issues around artificial intelligence. The first issue is freely available here, and they also have a blog which is available here.

Shahan Ali Memon and Jevin D. West (University of Washington) have written an article examining "what happens when inherently hallucinating language models are employed within search engines without proper guardrails in place". Source: Center For An Informed Public

Devin Coldewey at TechCrunch explains why it's difficult to review AIs but why TechCrunch is attempting to do so anyway. Source: TechCrunch

Cristina Monteiro ponders what William Morris would make of artificial intelligence. Source: Architects Journal