Steven Morris

Bristol

Reporter at The Guardian

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Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh

5 days ago | msn.com | Steven Morris

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Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Steven Morris

Salman Rushdie has said that authors are safe from the threat of AI – until the moment it can create a book that makes people laugh. Speaking at the Hay festival mid Wales, Rushdie said he had “never tried AI” and tried to pretend it doesn’t exist. But the problem AI had was that it couldn’t make up its own jokes, the writer said. “It has no sense of humour – you don’t want to hear a joke told by ChatGPT.
Devon producer is toast of wine world

5 days ago | msn.com | Steven Morris

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‘Burgundy eat your heart out!’: Devon producer is toast of wine world

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Steven Morris

They began by producing drinks more usually associated with the rolling hills of southern England – hearty ciders, warming tipples made from hedgerow fruits and good old-fashioned mead. But Lyme Bay Winery in Devon is celebrating a bit of history having become the first English producer to win prestigious international trophies for both red and white wine in the same year.
Cheese-rolling champion reveals secrets to his success

5 days ago | msn.com | Steven Morris

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‘Try to stay on your feet’: Cheese-rolling champion reveals secrets to his success

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Steven Morris

It is as much about control as out-and-out speed. Bravery is important – but so is an element of careful preparation and planning. Over the years, Chris Anderson, the record-breaking cheese-chasing king of Cooper’s Hill in Gloucestershire, has seen it all. Lots of wins but also losses and injury. Now having stepped back from the annual madcap, helter-skelter race, Anderson is taking on the role of elder statesman, happy to pass on his experience to anyone who’d like to listen.
Anger as Dorset estate withdraws public entry to ‘stunning’ local landmark

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Steven Morris

For decades the lake and waterfall on the Bridehead Estate in Dorset have brought joy to visitors who used the permissive path to access a scene of pastoral loveliness that could have come straight from the pages of a Thomas Hardy novel. But there was melancholy – and anger – among the hundreds, possibly thousands, who made final pilgrimages to the village of Littlebredy this week after it was announced that access to the public was being halted from 2 June.
Woman who calls herself ‘UK’s poshest thief’ fined for stealing Le Creuset cookware

1 week ago | msn.com | Steven Morris

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Woman who calls herself ‘UK’s poshest thief’ fined for stealing Le Creuset cookware

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Steven Morris

A former criminology lecturer who calls herself the “UK’s poshest thief” has been fined for stealing more than £1,000 worth of Le Creuset cookware, steaks, wine and gin. Pauline Al Said and her husband, Mark Wheatcroft, have been fined £2,500 between them after the thefts from a garden centre and a branch of Marks & Spencer.
National Trust celebrates 60 years of coastal project Enterprise Neptune

1 week ago | msn.com | Steven Morris

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