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Although it had been three years since I had heard my stepdaughter Susan speak, the tone and inflection brought her back to me.

Karen Gillan has revealed she is trying to 'do a better job at parenting' than 'the previous generation'.

Hertfordshire gardener Tommy Bradley is heading to Love Island and he's listed his biggest red flags as he tries to find his first serious girlfriend in the villa

Our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved one

The former glamour model, 46, was sending her eldest son back to college early due to his outburst after he became frustrated and smashed the screen of the £3,000 TV.

In our minds, alcohol is inexorably linked to being social. But that's the strange thing about it - it's so often not.

A legendary actor who has worked with numerous A-listers over the years was spotted on a rare outing in Los Angeles this week.

Jeremy Clarkson has opened up about his eight hour hospital visit as he underwent prostate exams to check for cancer.

Last month, Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn "shared on LinkedIn an email he had sent to all staff announcing Duolingo was going 'AI-first'," remembers the Financial Times. "I did not expect the amount of blowback," he admits.... He attributes this anger to a general "anxiety" about technology replacing jobs. "I should have been more clear to the external world," he reflects on a video call from his office in Pittsburgh. "Every tech company is doing similar things [but] we were open about it...." Since the furore, von Ahn has reassured customers that AI is not going to replace the company's workforce. There will be a "very small number of hourly contractors who are doing repetitive tasks that we no longer need", he says. "Many of these people are probably going to be offered contractor jobs for other stuff." Duolingo is still recruiting if it is satisfied the role cannot be automated. Graduates who make up half the people it hires every year "come with a different mindset" because they are using AI at university. The thrust of the AI-first strategy, the 46-year-old says, is overhauling work processes... He wants staff to explore whether their tasks "can be entirely done by AI or with the help of AI. It's just a mind shift that people first try AI. It may be that AI doesn't actually solve the problem you're trying to solve.....that's fine." The aim is to automate repetitive tasks to free up time for more creative or strategic work. Examples where it is making a difference include technology and illustration. Engineers will spend less time writing code. "Some of it they'll need to but we want it to be mediated by AI," von Ahn says... Similarly, designers will have more of a supervisory role, with AI helping to create artwork that fits Duolingo's "very specific style". "You no longer do the details and are more of a creative director. For the vast majority of jobs, this is what's going to happen...." [S]ocietal implications for AI, such as the ethics of stealing creators' copyright, are "a real concern". "A lot of times you don't even know how [the large language model] was trained. We should be careful." When it comes to artwork, he says Duolingo is "ensuring that the entirety of the model is trained just with our own illustrations".

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EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN:Bringing the England international to Bramley-Moore Dock would be seen as a serious statement of intent for the club's new owners, the Friedkin Group.

The woman was found injured by police on Corporation Road in Leicester at around 3pm last Sunday and remains in a critical condition in hospital.

The actress, 33, who played Lydia Chambers on the soap, welcomed the newborn after she and her husband Dan Acraman, who she married in 2022, welcomed their first in 2023.

A British couple took the footage at about 6pm on May 20 as they drove past the left-back's Mercedes near Dorking, in Surrey, where he was caught appearing to be sending a text message.

A Philadelphia designer has sparked a debate online after transforming classic tote bags into luxury handbags that cost more than some people's rent.

The Cleveland Division of Police discovered seven teenagers had been shot after gunfire erupted at a drag race overnight.

Humanity is on the verge of being replaced by a race of superhuman hybrids with powers only dreamt about in movies.

Raquel Hutt, 24, a New York-based influencer, who suffered a heart attack has revealed how the near-death experience changed her life forever - but not in a way she ever suspected.

The Conservative leader said she had a rule at surgeries in her North West Essex constituency that 'you have to remove your face covering, whether it's a burka or a balaclava'.

Khaby - whose full name is Seringe Khabane Lame - was granted voluntary departure and has now left the country.

The ABC correspondent, who sat down with the president in April, hit out at his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as being 'richly endowed with the capacity for hatred'.