22 h. ago What's the appeal of AI? It will always reassure you | Zoe Williams

Like many inventions – including mobile phones, Google and Lime bikes – I assumed AI would not catch on. But I’m finding it surprisingly usefulAt the start of the year, a friend asked artificial intelligence how to console his 10-year-old on the death of a pet. I thought this was the most ridiculous thing ever, given that ChatGPT didn’t know the pet, or the 10-year-old. And surely the reason a pet’s death occasions such unique grief is that pets are unique, and therefore cannot be imagined by a machine. So I assumed this wouldn’t catch on – but then I have said that about every new invention, including but not limited to mobile phones, Google and Lime bikes.Now everyone uses AI for everything, and I am slowly waking up to its appeal. Anthropic’s Claude is apparently the more emotionally intelligent, but the beauty of it is that it’s never so intelligent that it would tell you to grow up, get some backbone, and stop asking stupid questions. So you can go to it with anything: “My sist...

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41 h. ago Cat killer who beat two beloved pets to death during campaign of domestic abuse against ex

James Higginson, 20, walked out of court with his mother before collapsing against a bollard after being handed a suspended sentence on Monday.

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6 d. ago Killer skinned his own cat then hacked schoolboy, 14, to death during Samurai sword rampage when he also tried to kill four others, court hears

Marcus Monzo, 37, of West Beckton, Newham, is accused of murdering 14-year-old Daniel Anjorin (pictured) while he was on his way to school in Hainault, east London on April 30 last year.

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7 d. ago Death of 'petite' woman, 21 crushed by hotel wardrobe still under investigation

Chloe Haynes was crushed to death by a wardrobe in the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool city centre in 2022 - an investigation into the 21-year-old's death is still ongoing

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1 week ago X Factor's Wagner opens up about 'feud' with Louis Walsh, his pet lion and getting death threats from PUTIN

Love him or hate him, no one could turn away when he belted out his renditions of She Bangs / Love Shack, but sadly his X Factor journey came to an end in the quarter-final.

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1 week ago Man who doused his daughter, two, with petrol and watched her burn her to death dies in prison

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Shawn Ryan Grell, 50,was found guilty of the horrendous act against his daughter, Kristen Salem, who was just two at the time he set her alight in the desert back in 1999

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1 week ago Gene Hackman's secret Hollywood fistfight REVEALED three months after tragic death at 95

Gene Hackman's secret fistfight in Los Angeles - along with the star's hilariously petty response - has been revealed three months after his shock death at 95.

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1 week ago Russian captain denies unlawful killing of crew member in North Sea collision

The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, of St Petersburg, is accused over the death of Mark Angelo Pernia.

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1 week ago Heartbroken Nicola Peltz claims dog groomer 'caused the death' of both her dogs Nala and Frankie

Nicola Peltz claimed in court document that grooming company HoundSpa not only 'caused the death' of her dog Nala, but also her Frenchie Frankie in 2021.

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1 week ago Russian captain to enter plea over death of crewman in North Sea collision

Vladimir Motin, 59, from St Petersburg, is charged over the death of crew member Mark Angelo Pernia, 38.

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1 week ago Nazi hunter who left fortune to his third wife after cutting his children and grandchildren out of his will was not victim of 'undue influence', court rules

Self-styled 'Lord' Peter Eden changed his will the year before his death aged 99 so that all his shares in his property company were left to 'Lady' Joy Eden, 85.

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1 week ago Farmer's gruesome last moments as pet hippo 'like his son' mauled him to death

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Army major Marius Els was killed by his pet hippo Humphrey, the 1.2 tonne animal had been living on his 400 acre farm for years

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1 week ago Gruesome final moments of man mauled to death by pet hippo he treated 'like a son'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Marius Els, 40, was bitten to death by the 1.2 tonne hippo he named Humphrey. He had brought Humphrey to his 400 acre farm where the animal learned to swim with humans.

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2 w. ago Man mauled to death by pet hippo who was 'like a son' in horrifying final moments

Marius Els, 40, an army major, was bitten to death by the 1.2 tonne hippo he named Humphrey. He had brought Humphrey to his 400 acre farm where the animal learned to swim with humans

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2 w. ago Legendary comic book writer Peter David dies after series of health issues at age 68

Family friend restarted GoFundMe to help raise money for medical expenses after he was rejected from Medicaid

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2 w. ago Tottenham must learn lesson from Man Utd's disastrous Erik ten Hag moment

MAC OF THE NET: Ange Postecoglou has given Daniel Levy a dilemma at Tottenham after winning the Europa League and ending the club's trophy drought amid a disastrous domestic campaign

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2 w. ago Kris Boyd rings Nico Raskin transfer alarm bell as Rangers hero urges club 'tie him down'

Raskin has been a standout performer for Gers this season despite their poor campaign on the domestic front

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2 w. ago 'A slap in the face for victims': Fury at Labour plans to allow killers, rapists and domestic abusers out of jail earlier in bid to ease prison overcrowding

An independent sentencing review has called for criminals convicted of serious violence or sex offences to win their freedom after serving half their jail term.

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2 w. ago Manchester United got the season they deserved after their ridiculous decisions

Man United had the chance to win European silverware and qualify for the Champions League despite a dreadful domestic campaign, but they blew it.

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3 w. ago Diane Kruger's chilling role as prisoner at Nazi death camp for women where inmates were deliberately injected with PETROL and had their bones shattered in horrifying experiments

Diane Kruger (pictured above in character) portrays an inmate at Ravensbruck who is made a Kapo - a senior prisoner given the duty of overseeing other prisoners - in Each of Us.

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