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Byline: BY WILL KNIGHT ART BY JULIEN GOBLED A.I. GOES TO WAR SHIPS WITHOUT CREWS. AUTONOMOUS DRONE SWARMS. A SMALL U.S. NAVY TASK FORCE IS USING OFF-THE-SHELF ROBOTICS AND ARTIFICIAL [...]

Byline: BY KHARI JOHNSON AND WILL KNIGHT ILLUSTRATION BY PATRICIA DORIA CHATGPT, UNLEASHED OpenAI is now allowing its bot to interact with the live internet. This will make it more [...]

Byline: BY WILL KNIGHT NOT-SO-BASIC TRAINING Defense technology companies have caught metaverse fever. On may 10, a pair of Berkut 540 aircraft soared a few thousand feet above Ventura County, [...]

Last March, Chinese researchers announced an ingenious and potentially devastating attack against one of America's most prized technological assets--a Tesla electric car The team, from the security lab of the [...]

Donald Trump is speaking Mandarin.This is happening in the city of Tianjin, about an hour's drive south of Beijing, within a gleaming office building that belongs to iFlytek, one of [...]

Byline: BY WILL KNIGHT ILLUSTRATION / DOUG CHAYKA Trigger Warning The US military is inching toward letting AI control weapons-and even deploy deadly force. Last August, several dozen military drones [...]

Guess what? I just got hold of some embarrassing video footage of Texas senator Ted Cruz singing and gyrating to Tina Turner. His political enemies will have great fun showing [...]

The robot arm is performing a peculiar kind of Sisyphean task. It hovers over a glistening pile of cooked chicken parts, dips down, and retrieves a single piece. A moment [...]

Inside a small laboratory in lush countryside about 50 miles north of New York City, an elaborate tangle of tubes and electronics dangles from the ceiling. This mess of equipment [...]

Byline: BY WILL KNIGHT ILLUSTRATION SEAN DONG Remote Control As robots take on more challenging work, a growing industry is giving them a helping (human) hand. David Tejeda helps deliver [...]

On a tropical island that marks the southern tip of China, a computer program called Lengpudashi is playing one-on-one poker against a dozen people at once, and it's absolutely crushing [...]

Stewart encouraged me to visit the company, which makes the V-BAT, an aerial drone that Task Force 59 is experimenting with in the Persian Gulf. Features A FLEET OF ROBOT SHIPS BOBS gently in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf, somewhere between Bahrain and Qatar, maybe 100 miles off the coast of Iran. Like the sailors and officials I met in Bahrain, he wouldn't comment specifically on the situation - not about the Sevastopol drone-boat attack; not about the $800 million aid package the US sent Ukraine last spring, which included an unspecified number of "unmanned coastal defense vessels"; not about Ukraine's work to develop fully autonomous killer drones. Instead of risking the lives of your very expensively trained pilots in an aerial assault, you could dispatch a swarm of cheap drones, each one piloted by the same ace AI, each one an extension of the same hive mind. [Extracted from the article]

Now Raji is working with the Mozilla Foundation on open source tools that help people vet AI systems for flaws like bias and inaccuracy - including large language models. -W.K. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANNIE MARIE MUSSELMAN MARGARÉT MITCHELL founded Google's Ethical AI research team in 2017. -W.K. LILA IBRAHIM is chief operating officer at Google DeepMind, a research unit central to Google's generative AI projects. [Extracted from the article]

Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at the chip maker Nvidia, didn't look [...]

Shortly after walking through the door at Face++, a Chinese startup valued at roughly a billion dollars, I see my face, unshaven and looking a bit jet-lagged, flash up on [...]

Inside a simple computer simulation, a group of self-driving cars are performing a crazy-looking maneuver on a four-lane virtual highway. Half are trying to move from the right-hand lanes just [...]

Outside a large warehouse in Pittsburgh, in an area along the Allegheny River that was once home to dozens of factories and foundries but now has shops and restaurants, I'm [...]

* About halfway through a particularly tense game of Go held in Seoul, South Korea, between Lee Sedol, one of the best players of all time, and AlphaGo, an artificial [...]

Inside a large, windowless room in an electronics factory in south Shanghai, about 15 workers are eyeing a small robot arm with frustration. Near the end of the production line [...]

Stroll through Sanlitun, a bustling neighborhood in Beijing filled with tourists, karaoke bars, and luxury shops, and you'll see plenty of people using the latest smartphones from Apple, Samsung, or […]

Like any proud father, Gary Marcus is only too happy to talk about the latest achievements of his two-year-old son. More unusually, he believes that the way his toddler learns […]

Zane Lowe's first show as a DJ on Apple Music was a bit dizzying. The songs he played lurched from punk-pop to post-rock to grime to electronica to stadium rock […]

Some of the secrets behind Amazon's phenomenal success as an online retailer can be discovered inside a million-square-foot warehouse that sits amid bucolic scenery in the town of Robbinsville, New […]

'Where would you like to go?' Siri asked. It was a sunny, slightly dreamy morning in the heart of Silicon Valley, and I was sitting in the passenger seat of […]

Breakthrough Legged machines that stride over uneven or unsteady terrain. Why It Matters Much of the world is inaccessible to wheeled machines but not legged ones. Key Players --Boston Dynamics […]

Boston Dynamics is building robots that walk and run like living creatures. Some of these machines are now headed for the world's toughest terrain. Boston Dynamics robots use hydraulic power […]

Don't expect self-driving cars to take over the roads anytime soon. Here's what carmakers are really working on. A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 […]

David Silver invented something that might be more inventive than he is. Silver was the lead researcher on AlphaGo, a computer program that learned to play Go--a famously tricky game [...]

For all the talk about machines taking jobs, industrial robots are still clumsy and inflexible. A robot can repeatedly pick up a component on an assembly line with amazing precision [...]

Born in Beijing and educated at Harvard, Yasheng Huang, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, is a keen observer of China's entrepreneurial efforts and the role the government [...]

ILYA SUTSKEVER Why one form of machine learning will be particularly powerful Artificial-intelligence researchers are focusing on a method called deep learning, which gets computers to recognize patterns in data […]

The most powerful approach in AI, deep learning, is gaining a new capability: a sense of uncertainty. Researchers at Uber and Google are working on modifications to the two most [...]

Driving on Interstate 495 toward Boston in a Ford Fusion one chilly afternoon in March, I did something that would've made even my laid-back long-ago driving instructor spit his coffee [...]

ME: 'Should I go to bed, Siri?' SIRI: 'I think you should sleep on it.' It's hard not to admire a smart-aleck reply like that. Siri--the 'intelligent personal assistant' built [...]

China's central bank is testing a prototype digital currency with mock transactions between it and some of the country's commercial banks. Speeches and research papers from officials at the People's [...]

After decades of hype and headlines, quantum computers are finally poised to demonstrate their superiority over conventional machines. Precisely when this will happen is a bit fuzzy, though. The point [...]

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I've been seeing a virtual therapist. It's called Woebot, and it's a Facebook chatbot developed by Stanford University researchers that offers interactive [...]

Why is it hard for algorithm designers or data scientists to account for bias and unfairness? Take a work environment that's hostile to women. Suppose that you define success as [...]

All too often people make snap judgments based on how you speak. Some AI systems are also learning to be prejudiced against certain dialects. And as language-based AI systems become [...]

* Shortly after walking through the front doors of Baidu in Beijing last November, I was surprised to notice that my face had transformed into that of a cheerful-looking little [...]

FEATURES Is the brain a useful model for AI? It's possible that AI models don't need to mimic the brain at all. The machine-learning algorithms behind many recent AI milestones can't be programmed or reverse-engineered in the same way as conventional software. As we interact with more AI systems, perhaps our own remarkable capacity for learning will help us develop a theory of machine mind, to intuit their motivations and behavior. [Extracted from the article]

El artículo analiza la inteligencia artificial (AI) y el aprendizaje automático, la automatización de los procesos de guerra y las tecnologías de armas de vanguardia. El artículo también analiza el control del software (AI) y las aplicaciones militares de (AI).

The bet was that internet and wireless networks could let surgeons phone it in from almost anywhere - if carriers could fix the occasional glitches that mar video calls. Even if you've got every virtual reality headset ever made - HoloLens, Magic Leap, exfil- trated prototype of Apple's long-rumored smart glasses - you haven't experienced the best that AR and VR have to offer. Now, once you start pulling down data at speeds more than 100 times faster than your current phone, wireless headsets will be able to render VR representations that look exactly like you, doppelgängers that vault across the uncanny valley and ape your features and tics as you talk. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on maritime piracy. In the first nine months of this year there were 205 acts of piracy worldwide and over 280 crew were killed, kidnapped or disappeared. The resurgence of robbery on the high seas has prompted the shipping industry to fight back. Prompted by hijacking incidents and at least two terrorist strikes on targets at sea, the U.S. military is drawing up plans for an automated surveillance system that will use artificial intelligence to spy on the seas from space.

Julian Green, a resident of Torquay, England thought his PC was possessed. One evening in September 2001, his 7-year-old daughter dashed out of the family computer room in alarm and told him it had started showing her nasty pictures. He found that the computer's homepage had somehow been reset to a child-porn site. In October 2002, police raided his home and found 172 images of child pornography on his computer's hard disc. Green was detained for more than three months awaiting trial, charged with possession of child pornography. During this time he also lost custody of his daughter and faced the awful prospect of 10 years in jail.

The article presents an interview with chess player Garry Kasparov. On being asked why he is taking such an interest in playing chess against computers, Kasparov replied, "From an early age I thought it was my duty to be on the edge of the development of the game, and I realised that chess would be related to computer development. I was even quite excited to see some of the early programs in 1984 and 1985. I encouraged some independent German guys to develop ChessBase. We had some discussions, and I told them it would be a great idea to have a database to utilise computers' power to help chess players to improve their preparation and help with the analysis." INSET: DEEP JUNIOR vs DEEP BLUE.