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Why AI quiz makers like ChatGPT are no match for human ingenuity  
Artificial intelligence

Why AI quiz makers like ChatGPT are no match for human ingenuity  

Computer-generated quizzing is upon us but has it ever succeeded in mastering wordplay, or in creating a question with a glorious penny-drop moment for the solver?
Top 5 children’s books set on islands, selected by children’s author Lucy Strange 
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Top 5 children’s books set on islands, selected by children’s author Lucy Strange 

Prospect Cottage: See inside artist Derek Jarman’s seaside home for the first time
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Prospect Cottage: See inside artist Derek Jarman’s seaside home for the first time

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Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence review – sensitive portrait of a free spirit
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Weighted Down: The Complicated Life of Skip Spence review – sensitive portrait of a free spirit

Top 5 books about the Troubles, chosen by bestselling author Henry Hemming 
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Top 5 books about the Troubles, chosen by bestselling author Henry Hemming 

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Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel review – a depth of feeling like a punch to the guts
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Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel review – a depth of feeling like a punch to the guts

Clear by Carys Davies review – a wonderful, poetic reminder that no man is an island
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Clear by Carys Davies review – a wonderful, poetic reminder that no man is an island

Come and Get It by Kiley Reid review – the alienation of campus life
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Come and Get It by Kiley Reid review – the alienation of campus life

My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – a nightmarish vision of abuse
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My Heavenly Favourite by Lucas Rijneveld review – a nightmarish vision of abuse

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Top 5 children’s books set on islands, selected by children’s author Lucy Strange 
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Top 5 children’s books set on islands, selected by children’s author Lucy Strange 

Top 5 books on future tech and video game fiction, chosen by star YA author Triona Campbell
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Top 5 books on future tech and video game fiction, chosen by star YA author Triona Campbell

Top 5 inventive, speculative fiction books – chosen by poet and playwright Joelle Taylor
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Top 5 inventive, speculative fiction books – chosen by poet and playwright Joelle Taylor

Top 5 books about the ocean, chosen by Deep Water author James Bradley
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Top 5 books about the ocean, chosen by Deep Water author James Bradley

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Why AI quiz makers like ChatGPT are no match for human ingenuity  
Artificial intelligence

Why AI quiz makers like ChatGPT are no match for human ingenuity  

Computer-generated quizzing is upon us but has it ever succeeded in mastering wordplay, or in creating a question with a glorious penny-drop moment for the solver?
We owe children an apology for the state of the nation, says Caledonian Road author Andrew O’Hagan
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We owe children an apology for the state of the nation, says Caledonian Road author Andrew O’Hagan

I wouldn’t exist if not for a gruesome mass murder in 1905 – we owe our lives to chance and chaos
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I wouldn’t exist if not for a gruesome mass murder in 1905 – we owe our lives to chance and chaos