Tesla stopped reporting its Autopilot safety numbers last year soon after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began collecting and releasing autonomous driving crash data, the Los Angeles Times reported. Tesla didn't say why it stopped posting that data online, but company critics have a theory why the safety numbers are no longer publicly available. "Because it's gotten a lot worse," said Taylor Ogan, chief executive at fund management firm Snow Bull Capital On Thursday, NHTSA announced it opened investigations into two recent crashes in addition to the dozens of automated-driving Tesla incidents that it's already investigating. The Times had reported in July that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had known about multiple safety complaints and accidents involving Tesla's Full Self-Driving system when testing began on public roads with Tesla's FSD beta program. There has not been one accident or injury since FSD beta launch.

FedEx employees are working around the clock to make sure packages get to people in time for Christmas. For the first time ever, some Walmart customers in Florida, Texas and Arizona will be able to have their packages delivered by drone. Walmart's drone service officially launched for select customers in Tampa and Orlando, Florida; Phoenix and the Dallas-area just ahead of the holidays. The nation's largest retailer has been working with national drone services provider DroneUp since 2020 when it began trialing deliveries of at-home COVID-19 self-collection kits. Walmart announced in May 2022 that it was expanding its DroneUp delivery network to reach 4 million U.S. households across six states including Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Texas, Utah and Virginia by the end of the year.

Artificial intelligence is evolving rapidly, with projects like OpenAI's DALL-E 2, Google's MINERVA, and DeepMind's Gato all pushing new technological boundaries. Until now, national governments have been slow to adopt this cutting-edge technology. In 2023, however, the opportunities to provide effective, targeted, and affordable services to citizens will prompt them to finally embrace AI, making government more transparent, accessible and effective. In some countries, AI is already being used to improve people's interaction with the state. This year, the Estonian government launched a new AI-based virtual assistant called Bürokratt.

Rising to meet the formidable challenge of the timely diagnosis of dementia, research scientists from Regenstrief Institute, IUPUI and the medical schools of Indiana University and University of Miami are conducting the Digital Detection of Dementia study, a real-world evaluation of the use of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool they developed for early identification of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in primary care, the setting where most adults receive healthcare. Individuals identified as cognitively impaired will be referred for diagnostic services. The AI tool, called a passive digital marker, is a machine learning algorithm the researchers developed, trained and tested. The tool uses natural language processing to cull unstructured information in combination with structured data from a patient's electronic health record. These could include mention of memory issues, a notation of vascular concerns, comorbid conditions or other factors potentially linked to dementia. "Between 50 to 80 percent of dementia cases are unrecognized by the healthcare system in the U.S. And, if you include patients living with mild cognitive impairment, that number might actually climb to higher than 80 percent of cases that are not recognized," said Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine faculty member Malaz Boustani, M.D., MPH, senior author of the Digital Detection of Dementia study protocol paper, published in the peer reviewed journal Trials.

After its launch last month, ChatGPT, the latest chatbot released by OpenAI, made the rounds online. Alex, a sophomore at a university in Pittsburgh, started toying with the chatbot about a week after it was released, after finding out about it on Twitter. Within a couple of days, he got really excited by the quality of the writing it produced. The chatbot was good, he says--really good. He only agreed to speak anonymously, for fear of repercussions for admitting to academic dishonesty.)

The tool, from a power player in artificial intelligence called OpenAI, lets you type questions using natural language, to which the chatbot gives conversational, if somewhat stilted, answers. The bot remembers the thread of your dialogue, using previous questions and answers to inform its next responses. Its answers are derived from huge volumes of information on the internet. The tool seems pretty knowledgeable in areas where there's good training data for it to learn from. It's not omniscient or smart enough to replace all humans yet, but it can be creative, and its answers can sound downright authoritative.

ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI that went viral because it can give people direct answers to just about any query possible, apparently has alarm bells ringing at Google, according to a report by the New York Times Wednesday. A Google executive the Times spoke to but didn't name said AI chatbots like ChatGPT could upend the search giant's business, which relies heavily on ads and e-commerce found in Google Search. In a memo and audio recording obtained by the Times, the publication says CEO Sundar Pichai has been in meetings to "define Google's AI strategy" and has "upended the work of numerous groups inside the company to respond to the threat that ChatGPT poses." Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. ChatGPT is an AI chatbot that uses available data found online to give users conversational answers to a host of questions.

Arthur C. Clarke once remarked, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That ambient sense of magic has been missing from the past decade of internet history. Each new tablet and smartphone is only a modest improvement over its predecessor. The expected revolutions--the metaverse, blockchain, self-driving cars--have plodded along, always with promises that the real transformation is just a few years away. The one exception this year has been in the field of generative AI.

Non-target corporations Kairos and Amazon have overall error rates of 6.60% and 8.66%, respectively. These are the worst current performances of the companies analyzed in the follow-up audit. Nonetheless, when comparing to the previous May 2017 performance of target corporations, the Kairos and Amazon error rates are lower than the former error rates of IBM (12.1%) and Face (9.9%) and only slightly higher than Microsoft's performance (6.2%) from the initial study.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools show promise in overcoming the limitations of traditional anxiety disorders and/or depression, according to the results of a study published in Springer. Investigators established that audio and/or facial video features have been most analyzed, followed by electroencephalography (EEG) signals, to detect anxiety disorders and/or depression. Traditional screening tools include the Columbia Suicide Screen, Risk of Suicide Questionnaire, Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire, and more. These screening programs are often used in schools to assess suicide risk, according to investigators. However, these traditional screening tools have limitations, such as a high prevalence of false positives, a lack of resources because of funding for the assessment programs in schools, others demands on educators and school counselors.