So, the World Economic Forum (yes, that World Economic Forum) has declared creative thinking a top job skill. Apparently, alongside problem-solving (which mostly involves Googling error messages) and leadership (telling people what to do), being able to conjure something novel is still valued. Who knew? But isn’t AI supposed to…

So, OpenAI taught an AI to write fiction. The result? Imagine that kid from your high school creative writing club, the one who wore all black and claimed to be ‘from everywhere and nowhere’ (but was actually from Ohio). Now, give that kid access to a supercomputer and a complete…

The robots are coming… to help? That’s the cautiously optimistic take from Deloitte’s AI Forum 2025, where industry bigwigs like Jehil Thakkar (Deloitte India), Biren Ghose (Technicolor Creative Services), and Gopichand Katragadda (Myelin Foundry) debated AI’s role in the ever-evolving media and entertainment landscape. The burning question: Is AI a…

The doomsayers were wrong. AI isn’t just for automating your TPS reports or writing insipid marketing copy. At Tor Bank School in County Down, Northern Ireland, it’s helping students with special educational needs find their voices – literally and figuratively. Fourteen-year-old Keelan, for instance, uses AI to write songs. Yes,…

Brace yourselves, Europe. Google’s AI Overviews are coming, and they’re bringing the promise of synthesized knowledge… and the potential for synthesized nonsense. Following a trial run in the US that involved, among other things, suggesting glue as a pizza sauce ingredient and incorrectly labeling a former president’s religious affiliation (awkward!),…