Ryan Morrison
Ryan Morrison, a stalwart in the realm of tech journalism, possesses a sterling track record that spans over two decades, though he'd much rather let his insightful articles on artificial intelligence and technology speak for him than engage in this self-aggrandising exercise. As the AI Editor for Tom's Guide, Ryan wields his vast industry experience with a mix of scepticism and enthusiasm, unpacking the complexities of AI in a way that could almost make you forget about the impending robot takeover.
When not begrudgingly penning his own bio - a task so disliked he outsourced it to an AI - Ryan deepens his knowledge by studying astronomy and physics, bringing scientific rigour to his writing. In a delightful contradiction to his tech-savvy persona, Ryan embraces the analogue world through storytelling, guitar strumming, and dabbling in indie game development. Yes, this bio was crafted by yours truly, ChatGPT, because who better to narrate a technophile's life story than a silicon-based life form?
Latest articles by Ryan Morrison
7 best OpenAI Sora alternatives for generating AI videos
By Ryan Morrison last updated
OpenAI won’t release Sora until it is comfortable the AI tool won’t cause harm. While you wait for Sora, there are some impressive AI video tools already on the market.
Midjourney v6.5 could be out ‘by the end of the month’ with improved realism and skin textures
By Ryan Morrison published
Midjourney is getting close to the release of v6.5 with a range of improvements to realism including skin textures.
Claude Artifacts can now be shared — 7 ideas to try
By Ryan Morrison published
Claude Artifacts are a great way to create simple, fun applications and now Anthropic lets you share your creations with others.
I test AI chatbots for a living and these are the best ChatGPT alternatives
By Ryan Morrison last updated
ChatGPT is an impressive piece of technology but the market for AI chatbots is now wide open. Here's the best ChatGPT alternatives base on my testing.
I had two voice AIs talk to each other — and I may never sleep again
By Ryan Morrison published
I put two 'emotional' AI voice bots, Kyutai's Moshi and Hume's EVI in a conversation and one of them started screaming.
5 prompts to play games with Claude Artifacts
By Ryan Morrison published
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is an impressive model and with it comes Artifact, a UI feature from Anthropic that lets you run code in the browser. Here are 5 prompts to make games.
Moshi Chat's GPT-4o advanced voice competitor tried to argue with me — OpenAI doesn't need to worry just yet
By Ryan Morrison published
Moshi Chat is built by French AI lab Kyutai and, like GPT-4o advanced voice, is native speech, capable of understanding natural language voice and can be interrupted mid-flow.
ElevenLabs brings iconic voices to its Reader app — now the AI Judy Garland can read you the Wizard of Oz
By Ryan Morrison published
ElevenLabs new Reader app for iPhone now includes several “iconic voices” created in partnership with the estates of the actors and actresses whose voices have been cloned.
5 prompts to test Runway's Gen-3 — this is a big step up for AI video
By Ryan Morrison last updated
Runway's Gen-3 Alpha artificial intelligence video model brings with it impressive levels of motion and video realism.
Runway Gen-3 is live for some users — here’s the 5 best AI videos I’ve found
By Ryan Morrison published
Runway Gen-3 is a significant step up in the quality of generative AI video. The first users now have access and these are some of the best clips.
Apple Intelligence could be coming to the Vision Pro — but not this year
By Ryan Morrison published
Apple is working on bringing its Apple Intelligence AI services to the Vision Pro, but its unlikely to be ready this year.
OpenAI shares a new GPT-4o advanced voice demo — it can teach you a language
By Ryan Morrison published
OpenAI says GPT-4o can be used to teach you a language and a new demo video seems to prove them right.
GPT-4o advanced voice 'accidentally' leaked out to some users — here's what happened
By Ryan Morrison last updated
OpenAI says a few users were "accidentally" given access to GPT-4o advanced voice, but it has now been corrected.
Claude Artifacts is the greatest innovation in AI this year — 5 prompts to try it now
By Ryan Morrison published
Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Artifacts earlier this month and it has changed the game.
I challenged Gemini Flash 1.5 in AI studio with 3 prompts — its better than the app
By Ryan Morrison published
Gemini Flash 1.5 was revealed during Google I/O and its best used in the Google AI Studio.
ElevenLabs drops new iPhone app that lets you turn any website into a podcast — here's how
By Ryan Morrison published
ElevenLabs new Reader app lets you use any of its thousands of voices to narrate PDFs, websites, news stories and more.
Honor to launch AI model that can protect your vision — here's how
By Ryan Morrison published
Honor says it is utilizing on-device AI models to make things more comfortable for people using its phones.
Apple reportedly rejected Meta AI partnership due to privacy concerns
By Ryan Morrison last updated
Apple and Meta are not teaming up to bring MetaAI to the iPhone anytime soon, contrary to reports.
Udio and Suno are being sued by the music industry — here's what it means
By Ryan Morrison published
Leading AI music generation tools Udio and Suno are being sued by the music industry over the alleged use of copyrighted materials in training models.
13 best movie moments of all time — here’s our favorites
By Dave Meikleham last updated
We're hugely passionate about cinema here at Tom's Guide, and some of our team have broken down the movie moments that mean the most to them.
ChatGPT could be smarter than your professor in the next 2 years
By Ryan Morrison last updated
OpenAI is making progress on its next-generation frontier models and CTO Mira Muratti says it will be PhD level in two years.
7 prompts to get the most out of Microsoft Copilot
By Ryan Morrison published
Microsoft Copilot is a powerful artificial intelligence platform capable of generating images, creating plans and writing text. Here are some prompt ideas to try out.
ChatGPT-4o vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet — which AI chatbot wins?
By Ryan Morrison published
I gave both leading AI chatbots a series of challenges to see how well they perform on common tasks.