For many it’s a simple desire for immediacy of some kind, a need for answers, for advice, for just someone (or something) they can chat to without logging in, sending emails, filling out questionnaires, and remembering yet another username and…
Digital Romance, of a Kind AI girlfriend chat bots have gone from the sort of sci-fi horror to the sort of thing. It turns out they’re real. People are using them to have conversations, be flirtatious, unload, have a laugh,…
In the past, you would have to draw from scratch, pay an artist or learn to navigate some difficult desktop applications to create character art. But with Android AI image generators you can go from a few words to character…
Voice, increasingly, is becoming the medium for many of our interactions with AI girlfriends, elevating the role-playing experience beyond just words on a screen. Previously, such companion chatbots were little more than standard text messaging apps—a user inputs text and…
Image creation with AI is increasingly entering our daily creative workflows. We use AI images for blog content, social media images, mood boards, concept ideas, storyboarding, and hobby projects. Instead of needing graphic design skills, or hours of work, we…
The true magic of character-focused text-to-video tools is witnessing a written prompt come alive. A character is born. You are presented with a face, a gesture, a walk or a brief dramatic sequence. When using these tools for character-based scenes,…
Circular economy policy is usually explained as a very straightforward concept: use fewer raw materials, get products to stay in use longer, make less waste, and recover value at the end of their useful lives. In theory, it seems easy…
Information has always been the backbone of freshwater stewardship. In order to intervene effectively, governments, water utilities, landowners, businesses and the wider public need to understand current conditions on rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers and catchments. Too often, however, we do…
Agriculture is at the nexus of a host of environmental challenges, from the need to feed the world and provide people with livelihoods to land and water stewardship, pollution reduction, biodiversity protection, and climate adaptation. This is not an easy…
We often hear about AI as a solution to the environmental crisis: modelling the climate, protecting biodiversity, detecting pollution, optimizing farming and water management, or planning a transition to circular economy systems. AI can support all of these things, but…