ChatGPT suspends Scarlett Johansson-like voice as actor speaks out against OpenAI
What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?
Arwa Mahdawi
September 2023
Her inside: Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze and the perils of fictionalising your ex
The director was ‘scolded’ for creating a character based on her former husband – but reveals she hasn’t seen the film in which he supposedly modelled a character on her
August 2017
Future romance: how science fiction is predicting our relationships
The contemplative indie Marjorie Prime is the latest in a long line of sci-fi films and TV shows that explore how we might date and love in the future
November 2016
TV and radio blog
What Black Mirror, Her and the near-future genre tell us about tomorrow
Taking after George Orwell and JG Ballard, some of the most prophetic and disturbing fiction about the near future continues to be made on TV and film
March 2016
The tech industry wants to use women’s voices – they just won't listen to them
Leigh Alexander
From Siri to Microsoft’s Tay, women’s voices are leading the AI frontier but we have no reason to believe the male-dominated industry understands us at all
July 2015
TV and radio blog
All too human: in pop culture's robot revolution, familiarity breeds revulsion
Living dolls: sci-fi’s fascination with artificial women
May 2015
From The Godfather to Jason Bourne, why Hollywood loves urban transport
Subway systems, streetcars, buses and ferries appear countless times throughout cinematic history, revealing a lot about our changing attitudes to public transportation – and cities
February 2015
Media for the mind
Virtual love: is your Valentine an avatar?
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Over the past decade, technology has impacted all areas of our lives. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic looks at developments in digital romance and asks if the future of love is virtual
January 2015
Changing business
Why we have to get smart about artificial intelligence
Joanna Goodman looks at the promises and pitfalls of AI as we face the real possibility of ‘thinking’ machines capable of making decisions that affect humans
Joaquin Phoenix: ‘In real life, evil seduces’
In Inherent Vice, Joaquin Phoenix plays a stoned private eye in 60s LA. It is his latest portrayal of a vulnerable loner lost in a cruel world. Next he wants to make a superhero film in which an angel tempts Christ from the cross to start a family
Your computer knows you better than your friends do, say researchers
The top 20 artificial intelligence films - in pictures
The good, the bad and the ugly: technology immortalised in film
December 2014
2014 in review
Boyhood, Under The Skin, Interstellar: 2014, the year in film
From revolutionary forms of film-making to new ways of looking at A-list stars, here are the cinematic achievements that ripped up the rulebook this year
May 2014
Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone set for Woody Allen's new movie
Oscar-nominated star of The Master to play opposite Spider-Man 2 heroine Stone in Allen's latest, due to shoot this summer
April 2014
Media network blog
Computer says no – why brands might end up marketing to algorithms
How might brands fit into a world where smart 'Siri' applications manage our personal lives, as portrayed in the movie 'Her'?
February 2014
Best picture Oscar hustings
Why Her should win the best picture Oscar - video
The Guardian film show
The Guardian Film Show: Her, Cuban Fury and The Monuments Men – video review
