We’re living in an AI world

Now that AI is everywhere, from the websites we visit to reviews of real-world places we eat, it’s time to treat it as a utility

Dick Pountain is editorial fellow of PC Pro. He thinks it will all end in tiers. Email dick@dickpountain.co.uk A few weeks ago I “attended” an interesting webinar organised by IT security firm Sophos, in which one of their researchers, Ben Gelman, demonstrated how someone with no knowledge of programming or web design can construct a convincing e-commerce site complete with product pictures, audio and video for around £4.23 in eight minutes. He did this live on screen using GPT4, Stable Diffusion and a couple of other free tools. Then he dropped the bombshell: by adding just a tiny bit of HTML, he created from this an agent-based framework capable of churning out hundreds or thousands of similar sites from simple text templates. The web will soon be swamped by such sites, since…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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