Artificial intelligence has been capturing the world's attention during the past year, with human-like chatbots and AI-powered image generators increasingly being used around the world.
Conversations around how AI can revolutionise how you work and study re-emerged when ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives human-like answers to any question, became viral.
But the emergence of new breed of generative AI tools such as ones that can give clever responses and the others that can produce eerily convincing photos from text input.
With the rise of these generative AI programmes, The National looks at five of the top ones that are changing how we live, work and study.
ChatGPT
When this artificial intelligence chatbot was released, many users were sharing on social media the impressive human-like answers it was able to give.
It did not take long for ChatGPT, created by OpenAI, to go viral, with some companies having now integrated the programme into their work structure.
The way that it works is simple: you type in a question and fill in any remaining details. The AI tool then answers it.
If you do not like the way it has been phrased, you can ask for a change of structure of the answer or have follow-up questions.
Nevin Lewis, chief executive of Black and Grey human resources in the UAE, said that his company uses ChatGPT in their recruitment process.
“We were able to conduct research, write better Boolean strings to get the sourcing process started, create an interview question bank by role or interview type, get keywords for a job description, write a job description, rewrite email templates and extract questions from a job description,” Mr Lewis said.
Mr Lewis believes using AI in recruitment has helped reduce human bias and eliminate subjective factors like race, gender and age, but it can also overlook some qualities in candidates because AI is programmed to look for specific keywords or phrases.
There are now other similar chatbots, like the one by Bing.
Adobe Firefly
This programme is taking content creation to the next level.
It artificial intelligence tool allows users to create images and videos from text.
The AI tool could significantly help content creators in their work, but the question around how the programme can be used to spread misinformation online looms large as AI-generated fake videos and images are becoming more common.
Copy.ai
Similar to ChatGPT, this copyright programme can create written content for users.
But this one has been specifically designed to create social media posts, sales pitches, marketing materials, newsletters and emails.
It could help businesses become more efficient when it comes to their workload.
DALL·E
This is another programme that lets you create AI images from text.
But this one gives a different quality of images than Adobe Firefly, allowing users to choose from two very different programmes.
Created by OpenAI, it can generate digital images from natural language descriptions.
SingularityNET
This is a decentralised marketplace for AI algorithms that allows people to create, share and monetise AI services.
With access to these algorithms, it allows companies to create more AI tools that could change the way we live.
Jake El Mir, a tech entrepreneur in the UAE, said that it could “revolutionise numerous industries and streamline various processes is significant”.
“The rate of growth in AI technology is faster than what humans can comprehend,” Mr El Mir said.
“Breakthroughs once considered impossible are now being achieved, as AI algorithms can perform tasks like natural language processing, image and video recognition, and even creativity.
“This growth is likely to accelerate even further, leading to unimaginable advancements in fields like robotics, autonomous vehicles, and healthcare.
“However, as AI becomes more advanced, ethical guidelines and regulation become increasingly urgent to ensure its responsible and ethical development and use.”
Who has lived at The Bishops Avenue?
- George Sainsbury of the supermarket dynasty, sugar magnate William Park Lyle and actress Dame Gracie Fields were residents in the 1930s when the street was only known as ‘Millionaires’ Row’.
- Then came the international super rich, including the last king of Greece, Constantine II, the Sultan of Brunei and Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal who was at one point ranked the third richest person in the world.
- Turkish tycoon Halis Torprak sold his mansion for £50m in 2008 after spending just two days there. The House of Saud sold 10 properties on the road in 2013 for almost £80m.
- Other residents have included Iraqi businessman Nemir Kirdar, singer Ariana Grande, holiday camp impresario Sir Billy Butlin, businessman Asil Nadir, Paul McCartney’s former wife Heather Mills.
Hunting park to luxury living
- Land was originally the Bishop of London's hunting park, hence the name
- The road was laid out in the mid 19th Century, meandering through woodland and farmland
- Its earliest houses at the turn of the 20th Century were substantial detached properties with extensive grounds
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Strait of Hormuz
Fujairah is a crucial hub for fuel storage and is just outside the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route linking Middle East oil producers to markets in Asia, Europe, North America and beyond.
The strait is 33 km wide at its narrowest point, but the shipping lane is just three km wide in either direction. Almost a fifth of oil consumed across the world passes through the strait.
Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the strait, a move that would risk inviting geopolitical and economic turmoil.
Last month, Iran issued a new warning that it would block the strait, if it was prevented from using the waterway following a US decision to end exemptions from sanctions for major Iranian oil importers.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
Who was Alfred Nobel?
The Nobel Prize was created by wealthy Swedish chemist and entrepreneur Alfred Nobel.
- In his will he dictated that the bulk of his estate should be used to fund "prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind".
- Nobel is best known as the inventor of dynamite, but also wrote poetry and drama and could speak Russian, French, English and German by the age of 17. The five original prize categories reflect the interests closest to his heart.
- Nobel died in 1896 but it took until 1901, following a legal battle over his will, before the first prizes were awarded.
