From the perspective of critics, there are many reasons to be concerned about the rise of artificial intelligence. Billionaire inventor Elon Musk -- perhaps the world's most vocal AI antagonist -- has warned that the technology could become "an immortal dictator from which we would never escape." Several years before his death, Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist, said artificial intelligence could bypass biological evolution, leaving humans unable to compete. Now Prince Charles, the 69-year-old heir to the British throne, has revealed another reason to fear AI. In an interview with GQ Magazine, Charles said he's deeply dismayed by the way artificial intelligence is beginning to change the way people interact with machines.

Tsipi Shaish, a 59-year-old grandmother, knows exactly when she became an artist: when she was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2006. Before her trembling hands brought her to a neurologist, she had lived "a routine life," she says. She worked a boring job at an insurance company for 25 years and focused on raising her two kids. She never took art lessons, and beyond the occasional museum visit, never gave any thought to art. Now she talks proudly of her own paintings that have hung in Paris and New York City galleries. "I go to the canvas because I feel curious, I feel an uncontrollable urge," she says.

The Army offered a $100,000 prize for a solution to an increasingly tough problem for commanders in the field: In a battlefield dense with electromagnetic signals, is there a better way to distinguish friendly transmissions from hostile attacks? There is, according to a team of eight engineers from Aerospace Corporation, based in El Segundo, Calif. They won the prize by correctly detecting and classifying the greatest number of radio frequency signals using a combination of signal processing and artificial intelligence algorithms. The competition, known as the "Blind Signal Classification Challenge," was sponsored by the Army's Rapid Capabilities Office, a small organization that looks for ways to apply commercial technology to solve military problems. When the challenge kicked off in April, the Army gave all 49 competitors a large amount of recordings of various types of radio signals to use as "training data" so they could develop their algorithms.

After spending more than 100 hours testing LED TVs, including new 2018 models, we think the TCL 6-Series--available in both a 55-inch and 65-inch size--is the best value we have ever seen in a TV series. It produces images with noticeably more detail, brightness, and color than most TVs that cost hundreds more--in fact, even when viewed side-by-side with TVs that cost twice as much, we still prefer the TCL. After the success of the 2017 version, we had high hopes for the 2018 TCL 6-Series TVs, and overall they have delivered. They offer superb performance for their price, including high dynamic range support for both HDR10 and Dolby Vision formats that looks incredible in use. They also include our favorite built-in streaming media interface from Roku, so you don't need a separate device. With excellent performance and no serious flaws, the TCL 6-Series is an easy recommendation. If you want a more accurate image with better motion clarity and you're willing to spend more than twice as much as the TCL for it, you should consider the Sony X900F. The Sony also comes in 49-inch, 55-inch, 65-inch, 75-inch, and 85-inch versions for those looking for a bigger screen than you can get from TCL. With HDR content, its highlights are even brighter and more saturated than TCL's. The price increase is steeper than the image quality increase, though. The TCL is easier to set up, however, and the Sony's Android TV interface, though it offers useful voice search, is harder to use than TCL's Roku interface. I've been reviewing TVs and home theater equipment since 2008. I am an ISF Level II Certified Calibrator, so I am aware of what makes for a good TV image and how to get those things out of a TV. I have all the necessary test equipment and software to provide objective measurements to back up my subjective opinions. Additionally, I enlisted my non-videophile neighbors to take a look at our finalists to make sure our priorities were in line with what normal people look for in a TV.

SAP Cloud ERP's chief marketing officer Ivo Totay, chats with TechRepublic's Tonya Hall on how AI-powered ERP is accessible to businesses and can automate up to 5% of business processes where it is applied. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Pleasure to be speaking to you. Hall: So most people recognize SAP as a leading provider of enterprise application software. So, SAP is the clear No. 1 in the ERP market.

Today's leading minds talk AI with host Byron Reese Episode 65 of Voices in AI features host Byron Reese and Luciano Floridi discuss ethics, information, AI and government monitoring. They also dig into Luciano's new book "The Fourth Revolution" and ponder how technology will disrupt the job market in the days to come. Luciano Floridi holds multiple degrees including a PhD in philosophy and logic from the University of Warwick. Luciano currently is a professor of philosophy and ethics of information, as well as the director of Digital Ethics Lab at the University of Oxford. Along with his responsibilities as a professor, Luciano is also the chair of the Data Ethics Group at the Alan Turing Institute.

"Big Bertha," though, was most notable for its disturbing content, reflecting Taylor's penchant for giving equal time to the darkest depths of human nature. "Bertha" is a robotic carnival creature. A wholesome 1950s family -- a couple and their daughter -- comes out to the fun fair to play, but after feeding coins into Bertha's slot, slips into depravity; by the end, the father has raped and killed his pig-tailed young daughter. Even a lighter work, "Company B," a set of jaunty dances like the jitterbug to the music of the Andrews Sisters, has its dark elements: Look closely amid the joyful dances and you see young men as soldiers, shot and crumpling to the ground.

When you hear the word disruption, what do you think of? Maybe you heard it in your last meeting without being quite sure what it means to you? After all, it is a word that is thrown in to business conversations on a regular basis. For me, it means positively changing the way things work, causing a disturbance in way an organization does business, or creating a new way of delivering services that organizations couldn't, or never had thought of doing before. In my role at Thoughtonomy, I have the privilege to work with and listen to a range of clients across industries and companies of varying sizes, many of which are leading disruption in their industry using the power of Intelligent Automation by deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and the Virtual Workforce.

According to Undercover Recruiter, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to replace 16% of HR jobs within the next 10 years. While this doesn't necessarily mean you will be without a position, it does mean that your time will free up with this technology's integration. AI can make recruiting easier and quicker. It can improve the recruitment process and help with those mundane tasks that no one appreciates. Allowing AI to assist you in the recruiting process can give you the time to focus more on hiring the right person for the job versus the tasks necessary to make it happen.

The biggest threat to jobs might not be physical robots, but intelligent software agents that can understand our questions and speak to us, integrating seamlessly with all the other programs we use at home and at work. And call centres are particularly at risk. A Chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the Internet. The term "ChatterBot" was originally coined by Michael Mauldin (creator of the first Verbot, Julia) in 1994 to describe these conversational programs. Today, most chatbots are either accessed via virtual assistants such as Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, via messaging apps such as Facebook Messenger or WeChat, or via individual organizations' apps and websites Online chatbots save time and efforts by automating customer support.