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.

Enter a prompt into ChatGPT, and it becomes your very own virtual assistant. Enter a prompt into ChatGPT, and it becomes your very own virtual assistant. Why do your homework when a chatbot can do it for you? A new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT has thrilled the Internet with its superhuman abilities to solve math problems, churn out college essays and write research papers. After the developer OpenAI released the text-based system to the public last month, some educators have been sounding the alarm about the potential that such AI systems have to transform academia, for better and worse. "AI has basically ruined homework," said Ethan Mollick, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, on Twitter.

No fatalities or serious injuries have been reported in Cruise cars, but the auto safety agency said the vehicles could potentially put people at risk. When Cruise taxis stop unexpectedly, they "may strand vehicle passengers in unsafe locations, such as lanes of travel or intersections, and become an unexpected obstacle to other road users," the agency said in its filing. "These immobilizations may increase the risk to exiting passengers. Further, immobilization may cause other road users to make abrupt or unsafe maneuvers to avoid colliding with the immobilized Cruise vehicle." The investigation covers 242 vehicles and is the first step before the agency could force G.M. to recall vehicles. This year, Cruise began offering autonomous taxi rides in part of San Francisco and during low-traffic nighttime hours.

There was a time when the little robot dog was among the most coveted items in the world. From about 1999 to 2008, all kids had to do was decide which little robot dog they longed for the most. There were so many fantastic options. From the Canadian company WowWee, Mega-Byte the Hound Droid, which had a big, blocky head and glowing eyes. From Mattel, Rocket the Wonder Dog, which "rocketed through space, time, and the Milky-Bone Galaxy looking for a loving home here on earth."

This bird-like robot has a claw that it could use to perch on branches it has flown to. It could potentially be useful for collecting samples in hard-to-reach places or silently observing animals in their natural habitat. Landing and perching on a branch is easy for most birds, but it is very difficult for robots that fly like birds because of their larger size and the complexity of landing on a thin object. Now, Raphael Zufferey at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues have developed a robotic bird – which has a 1.5-metre wingspan …

KataGo's world-class AI learned Go by playing millions of games against itself, but that still isn't enough experience to cover every possible scenario, allowing for vulnerabilities from unexpected behavior. In the world of deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI), the ancient board game Go looms large. Until 2016, the best human Go player could still defeat the strongest Go-playing AI. That changed with DeepMind's AlphaGo, which used deep-learning neural networks to teach itself the game at a level humans cannot match. More recently, KataGo has become popular as an open source Go-playing AI that can beat top-ranking human Go players.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Waymo has applied for the final permit it needs in California before it can sell fully autonomous rides, the company told Reuters on Tuesday. A decision on its application, which was submitted Monday to the California Public Utilities Commission, could take months. General Motors Co's (GM.N) Cruise is the only company with the permit so far and has charged for driverless rides in San Francisco since June. The two rivals are frontrunners in the slow-moving effort to demonstrate that autonomous transport can become a widely available and profitable service, with San Francisco's hills, weather and clogged roads making it a key proving ground. GM plans to expand to more cities next year.

Two years after Los Angeles police leaders set tougher limits on the use of facial recognition technology, a follow-up report found the department lacks a way to track its outcomes or effectiveness. The report, by the LAPD inspector general's office, found that LAPD personnel used facial recognition software in an effort to identify criminal suspects nearly 2,000 times last year. Of those searches, about 55% resulted in a positive match -- meaning that an image of an unidentified suspect was matched through artificial intelligence to a mugshot or other photo of a known person, the report found. On Tuesday, Inspector General Mark Smith told the department's civilian oversight commissioners that the LAPD was largely in compliance with a 2021 policy that set out rules for when and how specially trained officers can use a facial recognition program maintained by the county Sheriff's Department. The county program runs images against a database of roughly 9 million mugshots of people who have been booked into the county's detention facilities -- a far less expansive pool than some third-party search platforms.

Machine learning has come a long way since computer scientists began taking an interest in programming a computer to play chess in the 1940s. It was only in 1997 that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer became the first machine to beat then-reigning world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Since then researchers have been finding ways to make artificial intelligence (AI) more sophisticated and smarter, which prompts the question: Are humans at risk of being replaced by AI? The future of "static" chatbots, the kind that everyone finds annoying because it gives a set of templated answers, may be a thing of the past, as researchers at OpenAI have trained a model dubbed ChatGPT to interact in a conversational manner. The AI research and deployment company claims that the dialogue-based AI chatbot can provide lengthy answers to various questions, write a song on any topic (try eggs), create slogans and even help to debug programs.

You'd better pay attention, because this one is a doozy. The tool, from a power player in artificial intelligence, lets you type questions using natural language that the chatbot answers in conversational, if somewhat stilted, language. The bot remembers the thread of your dialog, 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 if not omniscient.