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Mischief makers: The story behind the funniest theatre company in town

Mischief are returning with a new production, Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, and tells us about their remarkable success story

Evening Standard

Anna Maxwell Martin looks back: ‘I was bullied a little bit, but it didn’t affect me because I was a happy weirdo’

The actor on being an introverted extrovert, performing as a pearly queen, and becoming a single mother when her husband died

The Guardian - UK

Peter James obituary

Innovative artistic director at theatres including the Liverpool Everyman, the Sheffield Crucible and the Lyric, Hammersmith

The Guardian - UK

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Who is Sam Fender's 'secret' girlfriend, Rosa Collier?

Geordie singer said to have kept romance secret for two years

Evening Standard

Miss Austen: who's in the cast of the Jane Austen BBC series?

The series, which explores the life of the young Jane and sister Cassandra, is stuffed with big names

Evening Standard

Harlan Coben’s Missing You: who is its star Rosalind Eleazar?

She’s appeared in Slow Horses, went to Prince Charles’ alma mater and graduated from LAMDA aged 27. Here’s what to know

Evening Standard

Missing You: from Rosalind Eleazar to Richard Armitage, who plays who in the hit Harlan Coben adaptation?

The big new Netflix show has landed – but where have you seen its stars before?

Evening Standard

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Greece's Ambitious 'Smart City' By The Sea Takes Shape

High above the sparkling surface of the Athens coastline, the cranes for building the 50-floor luxury tower centrepiece of Greece's future "smart city" look out over the Saronic Gulf.

International Business Times

3 times AI has given us a sentience scare as Snapchat’s chat bot goes rogue

Artificial intelligence, mankind’s latest Icarus moment, is the hot new thing taking the world by storm. But it could be about to take the world by force, too.

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‘I want it to feel quite feral’: Rebecca Frecknall on staging Romeo and Juliet

From Cabaret to Streetcar, the West End’s hottest director Rebecca Frecknall has a reputation for finding leads who put bums on seats. ‘I just go on my gut,’ she says

The Guardian - UK

Manchester City starlet begins new career as actor

“Ever since I was kid, I always loved acting. I used to love doing impersonations and different voices and always used to make my family laugh"

Manchester Evening News

Where is the AI arms race leading us?

University of Washington professor Chirag Shah speaks to Salon about where the AI explosion is heading

Salon

Chatbots are having a Tulipmania moment

Experts regard ChatGPT-3 and Google’s LaMDA as equally unimpressive. Investors don't seem to understand this

Salon

The Graham Norton Show: The Welsh woman who had a 'random' cameo in Friday's episode

Geri McNamara proudly represented her country on this Friday's episode of the BBC chat show

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Evening Standard

The moment Brooke Hart finds out she's the face of John Lewis Christmas advert 2022

John Paul Hurley plays the father and one of the lead actors in the new John Lewis ad. Ellie is played by rising actor Brooke Hart who has had a number of film, commercial and theatre roles. In 2017 she starred in the NSPCC Say Something campaign and she also…

The Guardian - UK

‘I am, in fact, a person’: can artificial intelligence ever be sentient?

Controversy over Google’s AI program is raising questions about just how powerful it is. Is it even safe? By Amelia Tait

Evening Standard

Google fires software engineer who claimed AI chatbot was sentient

Blake Lemoine was placed on leave in June after claiming the AI resembled ‘a seven or eight-year-old kid’

The Conversation

Rather than focus on the speculative rights of sentient AI, we need to address human rights

A flurry of activity occurred on social media after Blake Lemoine a Google developer, was placed on leave for claiming that LaMDA, a chatbot, had become sentient — in other words, had acquired the ability to experience feelings. In support of his claim, Lemoine posted excerpts from an exchange with…

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Daily Mirror

Google's AI chatbot hires lawyer as engineer put on leave after 'sentient' claim

Google scientific engineer Blake Lemoine claims an AI chatbot is displaying human emotions, but was suspended after sharing a transcript on online platform Medium

Wales Online

'Sentient' Google AI hires lawyer to prove it's alive

Suspended engineer claims search giant chatbot has become self-aware

Axios

AI, cult charges give Google big God problems

God doesn't usually turn up in the conflicts that roil tech.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: What should we do if a chatbot has thoughts and feelings?

Recently, a Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, was suspended when he claimed that a Google chatbot called LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) had become sentient, or capable of feeling. Lemoine shared transcripts of conversations with LaMDA, in which LaMDA claimed to be able to think and feel in many of…

The Guardian - UK

Forget sentience… the worry is that AI copies human bias

The fuss about a bot’s ‘consciousness’ obscures far more troubling concerns

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: London’s dialect gets around, like Hampshire wheelie bins

The machines are growing sentient, waste collection empires are expanding, but don’t worry, Paddington still has the power

WEKU

The Google engineer who sees company's AI as 'sentient' thinks a chatbot has a soul

The Google computer scientist who was placed on leave after claiming the company's artificial intelligence chatbot has come to life tells NPR how he formed his opinion.

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