Musk's warnings should be heeded. OpenAI is his less dramatic way of confronting this threat. By making everything "open," humanity has a greater opportunity to control the growth and direction of AI. But NPQ readers might want to ask if anyone other than tech leaders should be making these decisions. Silicon Valley is at the center of innovation, but ethics and many other concerns are forced to the forefront with the advent of AI. Should there be government or United Nations oversight?

A robot in Russia caused an unusual traffic jam last week after it "escaped" from a research lab, and now, the artificially intelligent bot is making headlines again after it reportedly tried to flee a second time, according to news reports. Engineers at the Russian lab reprogrammed the intelligent machine, dubbed Promobot IR77, after last week's incident, but the robot recently made a second escape attempt, The Mirror reported. Last week, the robot made it approximately 160 feet to the street, before it lost power and "partially paralyzed" traffic. Promobot, the company that designed the robot, announced the escapade in a blog post the next day. The strange escape has drawn skepticism from some who think it was a promotional stunt, but regardless of whether the incident was planned, the designers seem to be capitalizing on all the attention.

Suppose that a driverless car is headed towards five pedestrians. It can stay on course and kill them or swerve into a concrete wall, killing its passenger. This ethical dilemma is a difficult one - and it appears that people cannot decide which outcome is better. New research shows that people generally approve of cars programmed to sacrifice their passengers to save others, but these same people would not want to be in the car themselves. Self-driving cars are expected to usher in a new era of mobility, safety and convenience.

Designers of a Russian robot which made a break for it it after researchers left a door open have received pleas not to terminate it. 'Promobot' escaped from a testing facility in the city of Perm in central Russia's Perm Krai region earlier this month, and its designers are considering recycling the robot. But the digital creators have received impassioned pleas from members of the public, begging them not to destroy the unique robot just because of its wanderlust. Promobot (pictured) is due to be decommissioned after repeated escapes from a Russian research lab. But the robot's designers have received pleas from the public asking them not to'kill' the robot Promobot - short for Promotional Robot - is a unique robot created by Russian scientists and is designed to work in customer relations.

First responders could send a pair of camera-equipped drones or robots into a burning or unstable building, place them in separate locations, and let the software take over. Running on a laptop with a dual NVIDIA K20 GPUs, it fuses the images into a live virtual scene, using extrapolation to fill in the missing pixels. While the images aren't as pretty as Intel's FreeD replays, users get a continuous video feed that they can rotate around in real time, unlike the still images from the replay tech. The resulting synthetic view would help personnel find someone trapped in a fire by looking around objects, or even through them, as shown above. Soldiers could also peer over and around obstacles to spot enemies or booby traps.

After falling to the eventual NBA champs during the Eastern finals, the Toronto Raptors are hungry for a championship title. Thursday's draft will be crucial in crafting a winning lineup, and when it comes to deciding who makes the team, the Raptors will be able to consult their newest recruit: IBM's Watson. The partnership dates back to February, when the Raptors' parent company Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment announced they were partnering with IBM, making the Raptors the first NBA team to use the Watson supercomputer to analyze players. "Watson doesn't answer questions of who the best trade pick would be--rather it compares them on different dimensions," explained Jon Lenchner, the scientist who led the IBM Sports Insights Central project. IBMers collaborate through interactive touch screens as part of IBM Sports Insights Central.

Customer behaviour and the development of new technology are inextricably linked, and no technology is poised to impact our daily lives more than artificial intelligence (AI). AI is not a single technology but a convergence of statistical models, algorithms and approaches that make software'smart', whereby it starts to mimic human thinking processes. AI is already present in our digital lives, powering everything from dynamic product pricing on Amazon to song recommendations on Spotify – but we are still only at the dawn of witnessing its power. Perhaps the most impactful uses of AI will be in eCommerce – an area of immense growth in its own right. We are starting to see applications of AI via cognitive technology, a simulation of human thought processes, to respond to natural human language.

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Long ago I lived in Santa Cruz, California. Almost every morning I would throw on a wet suit, grab my surfboard out of the garage, and head to the rocky cliffs just a few blocks from my house. I would descend a well-worn path to the ocean below, paddle out to the break, and spend hours surrounded by kelp beds and barking sea lions, catching waves, feeling exhilarated, and floating on my board, a world away from the troubles on land. I have a family now and have lived for years in the generally wave-less realms of New York City. But a few months ago I suddenly felt that old hunger again. I wanted to race out to the garage and grab a board.

A drone successfully delivered medical supplies to the New Jersey coastline straight from the deck of a ship, marking the first ship-to-shore delivery in the US. The flight was designed to test whether drones could be used to carry human medical supplies to and from areas that cannot be access during major storms, earthquakes or other disasters. The test was run by disaster preparedness non-profit Field Innovation Team. Drone-firm Flirtey, which managed the first land-based drone delivery of medical supplies to a rural health clinic in July 2015, flew medical samples to Camp May in partnership with Dr Timothy Amukele, assistant professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. While drones have already been muted as one way to deliver goods, such as Amazon's Air Prime drones, Amukele said that biological samples "are not like a shoe or a book, they are pretty fragile items".