Startup Firm Leads Kenya into World of High-Tech Manufacturing
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Newest first · UTC+11:00AI Poses New Threat to Integrity of Kenyan University Students’ Work
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· Mohammed Yusuf
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Stop Trade in Goods Made From Child, Forced Labor?
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· Julie Taboh
Is AI better at maths than mathematicians? | South China Morning Post
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Snowden spy leaks shook the world, a decade later, what’s changed? | South China Morning Post
In 2013, a 29-year-old US government intelligence employee came to Hong Kong to secretly meet with journalists. Edward Snowden leaked tens of thousands of top-secret documents showing that his employer, the National Security Agency (NSA), was illegally seizing the private records of billions of individuals who had n…
Is China’s technology falling behind in the race for its own ChatGPT? | South China Morning Post
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Elon Musk says Shanghai plant makes the ‘highest quality’ Tesla cars | South China Morning Post
Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the Tesla factory in Shanghai, the largest one globally, on June 1, 2023, during his two-day China trip. In an address to hundreds of Tesla employees, Musk said the cars made in its China factory “are not just the most efficient in production but the highest quality.” It was the tech tyco…
What if robots took over the world? One ‘imagines’ nightmare scenario | South China Morning Post
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Tesla CEO Musk makes surprise trip to Beijing as US-China tech war escalates | South China Morning Post
Tesla CEO Elon Musk paid a surprise visit to Beijing for the first time in three years on May 30, 2023. The American tech tycoon met with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, saying China will continue to offer a friendly business environment to foreign companies. Musk said his company had no intentions of ‘decoupling…
Israel exporting ‘technology of occupation’, says Australian journalist | South China Morning Post
Australian author and journalist Antony Loewenstein discusses his latest book, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, with Post columnist Alex Lo. Loewenstein warns that Israel is selling hi-tech surveillance tools to autocracies and democracies alike, with profou…
China’s first commercial driverless sky train begins trial run in Wuhan's hi-tech park | South China Morning Post
The Chinese city of Wuhan began testing a driverless sky train in its hi-tech park on May 9, 2023. The country’s first commercial sky train is expected to open to the public later in the year. The Guanggu train is said to be able to accommodate as many as 200 passengers when it starts operation.
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Solve the Nation's Fentanyl Crisis?
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· Julie Taboh
Song Created with Help of AI Rattles Music Industry
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· Deana Mitchell
Viral rap video helps rural Chinese village boost apple sales | South China Morning Post
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How Huawei's use of 5G and AI is transforming China’s coal mining industry | South China Morning Post
China has stepped up efforts to transition to clean energy and become carbon neutral by 2060. But in 2022, coal-fired power plants still accounted for nearly 60 per cent of the country’s total power generation. Most of the nation’s coal comes from underground mines, where there have been frequent gas explosions and …
China makes first ChatGPT arrest as job losses by AI begin | South China Morning Post
Holly Chik presents the latest update on AI in mainland China. William Zheng reports on the first person arrested for using ChatGPT to generate fake news; while tech reporters Ben Jiang and Coco Feng explain the lag of China’s tech companies as they try to catch up, amid the start of the first wave of AI-related job…
Will ChatGPT replace reporters? We asked AI to write for the Post | South China Morning Post
The education and legal fields are just some of the sectors feeling the impact since the arrival of artificial intelligence chatbot tools. Will journalism be the next industry to be disrupted by the likes of ChatGPT? The Post gave it a task to test it out.
ChatGPT: the Hong Kong stock market, China’s military and re-creating the dead | South China Morning Post
Holly Chik looks at how people in China are using AI and ChatGPT. A dead woman holds a conversation with her grandson; a surveillance satellite operates without human control; and the PLA considers “cognitive warfare”. In Hong Kong, a stock brokerage with thousands of millennial and Gen Z investors prepares to launc…
AI-generated image wins photography award, but artist turns it down | South China Morning Post
German artist Boris Eldagsen refused to accept the creative open prize at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards after his “Pseudomnesia: The Electrician” won on April 14, 2023. The photographer said the image was generated by artificial intelligence (AI), testing if competitions “are prepared” for AI images to e…
LogOn: Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads
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Elon Musk announces ‘TruthGPT’ as rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT | South China Morning Post
Billionaire Elon Musk said on April 17, 2023, that he will launch an artificial intelligence (AI) platform called ‘TruthGPT’, to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google. The move came even after Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives called for a six-month pause in deve…
Apple opens its first retail store in India | South China Morning Post
Apple opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in India on April 18, 2023, in Mumbai. The move follows the launch of its online store in the country in 2020 and after a delay in the opening of the physical store in 2021. Apple has a 3 per cent share of India's smartphone market, while the country has become a manufa…
Baidu wins permits to offer fully driverless robotaxi service in Beijing | South China Morning Post
Chinese search and AI giant Baidu has won permits to offer a fully driverless robotaxi service in Beijing’s Yizhuang district. The vehicles do not require human staff to be seated in the front to monitor their movements, marking a major step forward in China’s effort to commercialise driverless technology.
Hong Kong restaurant group overcomes pandemic labour shortage with automated wok | South China Morning Post
As Hong Kong’s catering industry faces an acute labour shortage following the pandemic, a restaurant chain has turned to automation technology, including a wok robot, to help cope with an ongoing manpower crisis in the city.
Juxtaposing TikTok with Apple, Chinese Commentator Misleads on China’s Openness to Foreign Businesses
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‘Don’t help a villain’: China urges Japan not to follow US’ lead on tech isolation | South China Morning Post
Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang told his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on April 2, 2023, to not follow the United States’ lead in trying to contain China. Qin was commenting during Hayashi’s visit to China, the first by a Japanese foreign minister in three years. Just days before Hayashi arrived in Beijin…
ChatGPT competes with Japanese prime minister for best responses to National Assembly questions | South China Morning Post
OpenAI’s ChatGPT made its debut in Japan’s parliament on March 29, 2023. Member of parliament Kazuma Nakatan challenged Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with a question generated by ChatGPT. Nakatan also displayed a ChatGPT version of the chatbot’s response. After comparing the two, Kishida lightheartedly insisted his a…
Elon Musk joins experts in call for pause on AI development because of possible ‘risks to society’ | South China Morning Post
Elon Musk joined over 1,000 artificial intelligence experts and industry executives in signing an open letter, calling for a pause in AI system development. The open letter said AI systems pose “profound risks to society and humanity”, and called for at least a six-month suspension to set safety protocols and build …
On a mission: Vietnamese artist races against time to ensure ‘heroic mothers’ not forgotten | South China Morning Post
Vietnamese artist Dang Ai Viet has been travelling around the country to ensure thousands of women who suffered the loss of their sons, husband and loved ones during the Vietnam war are not forgotten. The 75-year-old preserves their memory by painting portraits of women who are part of a group known in Vietnam as “h…
Robot prototype 3D prints biomaterials inside human body, lowering surgical risks | South China Morning Post
Biomedical engineers in Australia have developed a prototype of a small flexible robot that they say can be used to 3D print biomaterials directly inside the human body. The device called F3DB functions like an endoscopic tool, and may have applications as a way to repair ruptured tissue or blood vessels without the…
Ford Battery Plant Using Chinese Tech Raises Alarms in Congress
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A mentoring program boosts Cuban women in the creative industries
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In Kenya’s Kibera Slum, a Tech Initiative Empowers Children
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Baidu unveils China’s answer to ChatGPT, sends stocks tumbling | South China Morning Post
ChatGPT has generated immense interest in China after its launch. On March 16, 2022, Chinese tech giant Baidu unveiled “Ernie Bot”, China’s first answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. But instead of testing the chatbot in real-time, Baidu introduced the new tech over PowerPoint slides showing what the bot is capable of, which…
Japanese sushi restaurant adopts AI surveillance system after pranksters arrested | South China Morning Post
Kura Sushi, a major conveyor-belt sushi chain in Japan, has introduced a new function to its AI camera system, which it said will help detect and alert staff to suspicious behaviour. It came after a clip of a man drinking soy sauce directly from a communal bottle at one of its branches in central Japan went viral on…
Japan’s first AI-drawn manga sends shock waves through comic book world | South China Morning Post
Japan’s first AI-drawn manga Cyberpunk: Peach John is sending shock waves through the comic book world after hitting shelves on March 9, 2023. The author, who goes by the pen name “Rootport”, created the Japanese comics using a viral AI tool Midjourney, which has skyrocketed to worldwide popularity after its 2022 la…
Facebook parent company Meta debuts paid subscription service in Australia, New Zealand | South China Morning Post
Facebook’s parent company Meta launched a week-long test run of their paid subscription service on February 24, 2023. For a monthly service fee of up to US$14.99, “Meta Verified” subscribers on Instagram and Facebook are offered verification badges on their accounts, as well as added safeguards to prevent impersonat…
Artificial Intelligence Creates Voices for Films, Ads
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· Phil Dierking
Hong Kong artificial intelligence software helps fashion designers craft new looks in mere seconds | South China Morning Post
Fashion designers are adopting an artificial intelligence (AI) software system to generate ideas for new designs in mere seconds. The programme, developed in Hong Kong, taps into a designer’s individual style and preferences to come up with its results.
How the Wealthy Save Billions in Taxes by Skirting a Century-Old Law
At first glance, July 24, 2015, seems to have been a brutal trading day for Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO. He dumped hundreds of stocks, losing at least $28 million.
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Schools Ban ChatGPT amid Fears of Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Cheating
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BMW wows at world’s biggest tech show with ‘chameleon car’ in 32 shades | South China Morning Post
BMW introduced a new colour-changing car that morphs like a chameleon into different colours to suit the driver's mood. The German luxury carmaker first unveiled its colour-changing E Ink technology at the Consumer Electronics Show last year, but the colour range was limited to black, white and grey. For this year's…
Hi-tech vs low-tech: Hong Kong to lose its only drinks-carton recycler to a microelectronics centre | South China Morning Post
Hong Kong’s only drinks-carton recycler Mil Mill faces closure after its government-backed landlord, the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, refused to extend its lease. Co-founder Harold Yip said the three-year old company was told to make way for a microelectronics centre next to its site. With no …
‘Even great companies failed’: A gallery at the Consumer Electronics Show celebrates tech failures | South China Morning Post
The world’s biggest annual tech event, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, featured an exhibition of failed tech products through the years known as the “Gallery of Flops”. With items like Twitter’s device for tweeting to Nike’s smart wristband, gallery founder Narek Vardanyan said they wanted to show …