The artificial intelligence hype is getting out of hand

I hope everyone is enjoying the latest breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) as much as I am. In one of the latest AI developments, a new computer programme - DALL-E 2 - generates images from a text prompt. Give it the phrase "Club Penguin Bin Laden", and it will go off and draw Osama as a cartoon penguin. For some, this was more than a bit of fun: it was further evidence that we shall soon be ruled by machines. Sam Altman, chief executive of the now for-profit Open AI company which provides the model that underpins DALL-E, suggested that a generalised intelligence (AGI) was close at hand.