“AI – Artificial Intelligence”

The US military has carried out the first ever dogfight between a human pilot and an AI-controlled fighter jet.

The computer-controlled F-16 jet took on a manned F-16 aircraft in aerial combat at Edwards air force base in California in September last year, the US air force has announced.

Travelling at speeds of up to 1,200 miles per hour, the two jets practised both defensive and offensive scenarios as well as within-visual-range combat, known as dogfighting. At one point they came within 2,000 feet (610 metres) of each other.

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A recent report from AND Digital reveals that a significant number of UK-based CEOs are grappling with the potential threat AI poses to their own positions, while simultaneously pushing for its adoption within their organizations.

Whether we like it or not, artificial intelligence is taking over the internet. Content creators use it to generate images, videos, and text, programmers use it to generate code, and writers use it to generate illustrations. But AI is trained on woke, left-leaning content (like the New York Times). That may not impact computer scientists, but it does matter for those of us in the business of ideas.

Meta’s AI image generator has been criticised for failing to conceive of interracial couples — becoming the latest tech tool to be accused of bias.

The feature repeatedly failed to create pictures of Asian men with white women and vice versa, users complained, despite the company’s white founder, Mark Zuckerberg, being married to a Chinese-American woman, Priscilla Chan.

OpenAI has said it is withholding a voice-cloning tool from public release over safety fears.

The artificial intelligence company, which created the instant messaging tool ChatGPT, claims its Voice Engine programme can clone a person’s voice with 15 seconds of recorded speech.

It announced the technology on Friday, a week after filing a trademark application for the same name.

Some 20 artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are currently available for general use. Students, reporters, and researchers already rely heavily on these programs to help write term papers, media reports, and research papers. Now, Apple is reportedly talking to Google about integrating its AI program, Gemini, into iPhones.

Artificial intelligence technology is coming to Hollywood a lot faster than many could have anticipated. This week, OpenAI is reportedly making the rounds to studios and talent agencies in a bid to promote Sora, the text-to-video generative AI application that its developers hope will revolutionize the way Hollywood makes movies and TV shows.

Gonna be a lot of unemployed in Hollywood.

Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed its first patient implanted with a chip using his mind to play online chess.

Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralysed below the shoulder after a diving accident, played chess on his laptop and moved the cursor using the Neuralink device.

The implant seeks to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using only their thoughts.

Nations — Canada included — are running out of time to design and implement comprehensive safeguards on the development and deployment of advanced artificial intelligence systems, a leading AI safety company warned this week.

In a worst-case scenario, power-seeking superhuman AI systems could escape their creators’ control and pose an “extinction-level” threat to humanity, AI researchers wrote in a report commissioned by the U.S. Department of State entitled Defence in Depth: An Action Plan to Increase the Safety and Security of Advanced AI.

A new US State Department-funded study calls for a temporary ban on the creation of advanced AI passed a certain threshold of computational power.

The tech, its authors claim, poses an ‘extinction-level threat to the human species.’

The study, commissioned as part of a $250,000 federal contract, also calls for ‘defining emergency powers’ for the American government’s executive branch ‘to respond to dangerous and fast-moving AI-related incidents’ — like ‘swarm robotics.’

The United States is moving rapidly towards developing a new generation of jet fighter drones piloted by artificial intelligence (AI) which are intended to outsmart China and Russia in any future conflict.

The Pentagon is due soon to select a shortlist from five companies competing for the project with the aim of beginning production of more than 1,000 of the super-fighter drones by 2028.

Machines can now talk with us in ways that aren’t preprogrammed. They can draw pictures, write passable (if generic) college essays, and make fake videos so convincing that you and I can’t tell the difference. The first time I used ChatGPT, I almost forgot that I was communicating with a machine.

Artificial intelligence is like nothing that humans have ever created. It consumes vast amounts of data and organizes itself in ways that its creators didn’t foresee and don’t understand. “If we open up ChatGPT or a system like it and look inside,” AI scientist Sam Bowman told Noam Hassenfeld at Vox, “you just see millions of numbers flipping around a few hundred times a second. And we just have no idea what any of it means.”