To understand the extent of the pope's interest in AI, we first need to look at his choice of name. His decision to go by Pope Leo XIV harks back to Pope Leo XIII, who held the papacy at the time of the industrial revolution and wrote an encyclical called Rerum Novarum on capital and labor. The current Pope Leo is in many ways continuing the work of his namesake, according to Brian Boyd, US faith liaison at The Future of Life Institute. "Leo is developing the tradition of Catholic social teaching on asking how can we, as a society, serve the common good better -- recognizing that AI is the mos
CNET's best overall pick for AI image generators is Google's Nano Banana models. These Gemini AI models are scarily good at creating ultrarealistic images, as well as images featuring heavy swaths of text. They come prebaked with Google's SynthID, an invisible watermark that proves it's AI-generated. You can create for free in the Gemini chatbot, but upgrading to Google's paid subscriptions gives you higher generation limits. If you're a regular ChatGPT user, you may be best off staying inside OpenAI's ecosystem rather than pivoting to another service. The company's latest model, ChatGPT Imag