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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?

Imagen, from Google, is the latest example of an AI seemingly able to produce high-quality images from a text prompt – but they aren't quite ready to replace human illustrators

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Watch salamanders 'skydive' in a miniature wind tunnel

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Watch salamanders 'skydive' in a miniature wind tunnel

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Example of one of the study sites

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Noisy boats over the Great Barrier Reef are cutting fish lives short

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Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure

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Clever birds forced to find new homes as Cambridge lab faces closure

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The grand plan to create a periodic table of all animal intelligence

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A nematode

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Hungry worms will risk being hurt if it helps them reach a meal

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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Watch male orb-weaving spiders catapult off females to escape death

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sandy the dingo

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Dingo genome suggests Australian icon not descended from domestic dogs

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Bottlenose dolphins being fed

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Dolphins who are hand-fed by tourists are less social than their peers

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Tardigrade

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Tardigrades can hitch-hike on snails to travel longer distances

Although they are incredibly resilient, tardigrades are also too small to travel very far – unless they hitch a ride on a larger animal

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Blind Mexican cave fish are developing cave-specific accents

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AI strips out city noise to improve earthquake monitoring systems

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Common swifts enter hibernation-like torpor on cold nights

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Male toad clings to female for 5 months waiting for chance to mate

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