AI

AI killed the Easter Bunny

3 May 2025 9:00 am

On the grounds of advancing age, I had decided to ignore all the chatter about artificial intelligence and devote my…

Absorbingly repellent: Ed Atkins, at Tate Britain, reviewed

12 April 2025 9:00 am

In the old days, you’d have to go to a lot of trouble to inhabit another person’s skin. Today you…

The vagaries of laboratory experiments

15 March 2025 9:00 am

With much research threatened by flawed methods and misconduct, will AI bring unprecedented scientific progress or merely increase the unreliability problem?

Real artists have nothing to fear from AI

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Christie’s is making digital-art history again – or at least trying to. Between 20 February and 5 March, it is…

Playing Monopoly is not such a trivial pursuit

9 November 2024 9:00 am

Games are politics you can touch, says Tim Clare, and a well-designed boardgame can provide a critical experience of society’s systems

Nick Cave’s right-hand man Warren Ellis on AI, Gorecki and staying young

2 November 2024 9:00 am

In the next few days Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds play Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester and London. There are still…

Could AI lead to a revival of decorative beauty?

26 October 2024 9:00 am

In front of me is what appears to be an authentic Delft tile. The surface of the tile is mottled,…

The triumph of surrealism

19 October 2024 9:00 am

When Max Ernst was asked by an American artist to define surrealism at a New York gathering of exiles in…

The rollercoaster ride of the world’s most reckless investor

19 October 2024 9:00 am

The Korean-born Masayoshi Son – who lost $58.6 billion in 2000 – has a fascination with Napoleon, compares himself to Genghis Khan and is now reinventing himself as a futurist

Beware the ‘sourdough effect’

12 October 2024 9:00 am

As the joke goes, there are two ways to become a top judge. You can study law at university, then…

The craft renaissance

8 June 2024 9:00 am

As long ago as the 1960s, the poet Edward James was worried that traditional crafts were dying out. Having frittered…

In the grip of apocalypse angst

6 April 2024 9:00 am

Dorian Lynskey lays out the many ways in which we have imagined the world ending – through pandemic, nuclear holocaust, climate change, asteroid impact or, most unnervingly, AI

AI just changed the world. Again

21 January 2024 4:00 am

Argentine President Javier Milei’s recent speech, to the World Economic Forum in Davos, has caused a stir for several reasons.…

Mother’s always angry: Jungle House, by Julianne Pachino, reviewed

9 December 2023 9:00 am

But who – or what – is Mother? And are her exasperated warnings about ever-present danger exaggerated?

The real problem with ChatGPT is that it can never make a joke

25 November 2023 9:00 am

When Andy Stanton commands the AI program to tell him a story about a blue whale with a tiny penis, the result, as it unfolds, drives him a bit insane

The balance of power between humans and machines

18 November 2023 9:00 am

Robert Skidelsky dismisses the possibility of our annihilation by a superintelligent computer system, since ‘science tells us that we cannot create such a being’. But does it?

The case against re-recording albums

28 October 2023 9:00 am

In 2012, Jeff Lynne released Mr Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra. Except it wasn’t. It was…

Watch three irascible women screaming at each other: Anthropology, at Hampstead Theatre, reviewed

16 September 2023 9:00 am

Anthropology is a drama about artificial intelligence that starts as an ultra-gloomy soap opera. A suicidal lesbian, Merril, speaks on…

At the Science Gallery I argued with a robot about love and Rilke

26 August 2023 9:00 am

A little-known fact about the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument, the first sampling synthesiser, introduced in 1979, is that it incorporated…

AI is the death of porn

1 April 2023 7:00 pm

I have a friend, let’s call her Ellie, who has a diverting side hustle: she sells erotic images of herself…

Are we ignoring AI’s ‘lived experience’?

13 June 2022 5:10 pm

Number Five, as the old film’s catchphrase went, is alive. A whistleblower at Google called Blake Lemoine has gone public…

We must all become Doctor Dolittles and listen to the wisdom of animals

23 April 2022 9:00 am

One day the writer and artist James Bridle rented a hatchback, taped a smartphone to the steering wheel and installed…

If you like First Dates, you'll love This is Dating

26 February 2022 9:00 am

The tagline of This is Dating, a new podcast from across the pond, is ‘Come for the cringe, stay for…