Samsung has finally unveiled its foldable phone, after years of teasing and rumours. The handset, with a screen known as the Infinity Flex Display, can be folded out into a tablet or bent in to make it smaller and suitable for use as a phone or fitting into people's pockets. The company says the technology powering the new phone will serve as the "foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow". The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

The ethical and social implications of Artificial Intelligence remain uncertain. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is proliferating throughout society -- promising advances in healthcare and science, powering search engines and shopping platforms, driving driverless cars, and assisting in hiring decisions. With such ubiquity comes power and influence. And along with the technology's benefits come worries over privacy and personal freedom. Yes, AI can take some of the time and effort out of decision-making.

Black Friday is approaching and retailers will be keen to maximise sales with highly targeted advertising throughout the weekend-long bargain fest. That will make it an equally busy time for Location Sciences Group PLC (LON:LSAI). The AIM-listed business has built a platform that gives advertisers a whole range of data on how effective an ad has been in getting people into shops. Products cover out of home ads (posters), digital promotions on smartphones and tablets, raw data on consumer movements or reports with insights and analysis. Kitchen maker Wren, for example, uses it to link footfall at its stores with its marketing activity.

Human-level AI is similar, but not quite as powerful as AGI, for the simple reason that many in the know expect AGI to surpass anything we mortals can accomplish. Though some see this as an argument against building HLAI, some experts believe that only an HLAI could ever be clever enough to design a true AGI – human engineers would only be necessary up to a certain point once we get the ball rolling. At a conference on HLAI held by Prague-based AI startup GoodAI in August, a number of AI experts and thought leaders were asked a simple question: "Why should we bother trying to create human-level AI?" For those AI researchers that have detached from the outside world and gotten stuck in their own little loops (yes, of course we care about your AI-driven digital marketplace for farm supplies), the responses may remind them why they got into this line of work in the first place. For the rest of us, they provide a glimpse of the great things to come. For what it's worth, this particular panel was more of a lightning round -- largely for fun, the experts were instructed to come up with a quick answer rather than taking time to deliberate and carefully choose their words.

A 43-foot-tall spider and a 46-foot tall minotaur roamed the streets of Toulouse, France last week. The show, called "The Guardian of the Temple" ran for four days starting November 1, during which the minotaur slept in the city square and the spider descended from a roof. The movements of the creatures are highly elaborate, controlled by over a dozen people. Even the eyes and ears have a designated puppeteer. The giants are made of wood and metal and took a total of two years to complete.

Inc. shut down a project it had been developing for four years -- a recruitment tool driven by machine learning. The concept was a simple and appealing one: at its core, the project aimed to develop an algorithm that would sort incoming job applications to isolate the short list for managers to use in making their final selections. Anyone who has been involved in such a process knows that isolating the top five or ten resumés from dozens of applicants is a time-consuming job. Any process that brings logic and speed to this stage of the recruitment chain can only be a good thing. But algorithms are only as good as the data used to drive them, and in the Amazon case the machine "learning" was based on patterns in applications submitted to the firm in the previous ten years.

Scientists designed a machine-learning algorithm to help understand whether humans are naturally violent or are influenced to become vicious through social constructs like religion. The researchers combined computer modelling and cognitive psychology to create an AI system which mimics human religiosity which allowed them to understand conditions, triggers and patterns for religious violence. The findings, published in the Journal for Artificial Societies and Social Stimulation, revealed that humans are actually a naturally peaceful species, but a person's core beliefs can increase xenophobia and anxiety between religious groups. Although the research focused on previous events in history, the scientists from Oxford, Boston University and the University of Agder, Norway, said the findings can be applied to modern day religious violence such as Islamic extremism such as ISIS.

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said he will press China to embrace arms controls during upcoming meetings in Beijing, citing the need to regulate robotic and space-based weapons that could soon shift from "science fiction" to reality.

PITTSBURGH (November 5, 2018) ... Expectations for artificial intelligences are very real and very high. An analysis in Forbes projects revenues from A.I. will skyrocket from $1.62 billion in 2018 to $31.2 billion in 2025. The report also included a survey revealing 84 percent of enterprises believe investing in A.I. will lead to competitive advantages. "It is exciting to see the tremendous successes and progress made in recent years," says Daniel Jiang, assistant professor of industrial engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. "To continue this trend, we are looking to develop more sophisticated methods for algorithms to learn strategies for optimal decision making."

Yuval Noah Harari says data is the new source of political power, and he worries that big data and AI technology threaten to destroy liberal democracy. Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, lecturer, and author. He is the author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, as well as Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Harari received his PhD from Oxford. He is currently a lecturer in the history department at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.