“AI – Artificial Intelligence”

A former supermarket worker who broke into Windsor Castle armed with a crossbow and threatened to kill Queen Elizabeth was encouraged by an artificial intelligence bot to carry out the plot, a court heard.

Jaswant Singh Chail, 21, climbed over the castle walls with a rope ladder on Christmas Day 2021 and roamed the grounds for two hours before being apprehended at 8.30am close to the Queen’s apartment, where she and other members of the royal family were staying.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led many observers to worry that computers will soon replace far more jobs than imagined just a few years ago. The World Economic Forum now predicts that over 85 million positions could be lost to automation by the year 2025, many in law, medicine, accounting and other fields once thought immune to electronic substitution.

The pope did not wear Balenciaga. And filmmakers did not fake the moon landing. In recent months, however, startlingly lifelike images of these scenes created by artificial intelligence have spread virally online, threatening society’s ability to separate fact from fiction.

To sort through the confusion, a fast-burgeoning crop of companies now offer services to detect what is real and what isn’t.

Germany’s Bild tabloid, the biggest-selling newspaper in Europe, plans to replace a range of editorial jobs with artificial intelligence as part of a €100m costcutting programme, it has told staff in an email.

The paper is also reorganising its regional newspaper business in a move expected to lead to hundreds of redundancies.

The newspaper would “unfortunately be parting ways with colleagues who have tasks that in the digital world are performed by AI and/or automated processes”, its owner, Europe’s largest media publisher, Axel Springer SE, said in an email to staff.

Combining physical robots with artificial intelligence (AI) could enable machines to develop human-like thinking, a scientist has warned.

Current AI models, such as ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, have no physical embodiment and use pre-existing datasets to answer questions and solve problems.

Experts say that this type of disembodied technology is never going to develop true sentience or complex, human-like thoughts. But embedding this technology into a physical location, such as in a robot, could enable this to happen.

Tesla’s Autopilot system has been involved in more than 700 crashes in the US since 2019, including 17 fatalities, far more than previously reported, according to regulators.

Elon Musk’s car company has been at the forefront of driver-assistance technology and he says that it is safer than a human driver.

A US organisation that supports people with eating disorders has suspended use of a chatbot after reports it shared harmful advice.

The National Eating Disorder Association (Neda) recently closed its live helpline and directed people seeking help to other resources, including the chatbot.

The AI bot, named “Tessa,” has been taken down, the association said.

It will be investigating reports about the bot’s behaviour.

Maybe we won’t ever have to worry about Chinese experiments in artificial intelligence; maybe our own military experiments in artificial intelligence will get here first and create their own problems. At a recent Royal Aeronautical Society defense conference, a U.S. Air Force colonel described a simulated test in which an AI-enabled drone “decided that ‘no-go’ decisions from the human were interfering with its higher mission – killing SAMs – and then attacked the operator in the simulation.”

More than 400 of the world’s most distinguished experts in artificial intelligence including the creator of ChatGPT have warned of the possibility that the technology could lead to the extinction of humanity.

In a joint statement, backed by the chief executives of the leading AI companies, the signatories said that mitigating this risk “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war”.

Two of the three godfathers of A.I. are professors based in Canada. One of them, Geoffrey Hinton of the University of Toronto, recently left his job at Google in order to speak more frankly about the risks of artificial intelligence.

The other, Yoshua Bengio of the Université de Montréal, echoed the sounding of that alarm in a recent open letter urging a pause in the development of increasingly powerful A.I. systems.

He’s among the several high profile names, including Elon Musk and the Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who believe it’s time to pump the brakes, if only for six months.

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Elon Musk’s company Neuralink approval to begin human trials on brain chips.

Twitter and SpaceX’s billionaire owner took to social media this week to congratulate Neuralink on the news. The company has been striving for this moment for six years, but the FDA issued some warnings that Neuralink will have to address ongoing concerns, including the safety of the lithium batteries contained within the device.