Former U.S. Amb. to NATO Kurt Volker says the Russian fighter jet collision was'intentional' and requires a'firm response' from the U.S. The Biden administration blasted Russia for honoring two pilots for downing a U.S. drone in international airspace while saying the aviator who crashed into the drone was "at best, just an idiot." Last week, the Kremlin issued state awards to the fighter jet pilots responsible for downing the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea earlier the week prior. In an official statement, the Ministry of Defense commended the pilots for preventing the drone from "violating the boundaries of the temporary airspace regime established for the special military operation." U.S. European Command said a Russian Su-27 fighter jet colliding with a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. A screenshot shows a jet dumping fuel.

Machine learning is no longer about experiments. Most industry-leading enterprises have already seen dramatic successes from their investments in machine learning (ML), and there is near-universal agreement among business executives that building data science capabilities is vital to maintaining and extending their competitive advantage. The bullish outlook is evident in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' predictions regarding growth of the data science career field: Employment of data scientists is projected to grow 36% from 2021 to 2031, much faster than the average for all occupations. The aim now is to grow these initial successes beyond the specific parts of the business where they had initially emerged. Companies are looking to scale their data science capabilities to support their entire suite of business goals and embed ML-based processes and solutions everywhere the company does business.

Russia has said that a division of its Bastion coastal defence missile systems has been deployed to Paramushir, one of the Kuril Islands in the north Pacific, some of which Japan claims as its territory. The move is part of a wider strengthening of Russia's defences in its vast far eastern regions, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday, partly in response to what he called United States efforts to "contain" Russia and China. Moscow's move also comes after high-level visits by Asian leaders to both sides of the Ukraine war. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, a close US ally and a key Chinese rival in East Asia, made a surprise trip to Ukraine this week, which some observers said was an attempt to upstage Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia. "To contain Russia and China, the United States is significantly increasing its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, strengthening its political and military links with its allies, continuing to create a new American security architecture in this region," Shoigu said in a video of his address to Russia's top brass, published by the defence ministry.

AI-generated deepfakes showing Donald Trump making a run from authorities and being arrested have flooded Twitter ahead of the former president's possible indictment this week. Mr Trump could be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury as soon as this week and potentially charged with falsifying business records connected to hush money payments during his 2016 campaign to adult film actor Stormy Daniels. An indictment in New York would make Mr Trump the first former president to face a criminal charge. The fabricated images, now viewed over four million times, show Mr Trump resisting as officers resembling those from the New York Police Department attempt to restrain him. Some images fabricated scenarios where the 45th president is seen struggling to run away from the officers.

CyberGuy explains how ChatGPT's functions can help you in your day to day life. Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca has made the controversial decision to officially employ an artificial intelligence assistant to help inform him of what voters want for the future of the country. This decision has been met with mixed reactions, with some applauding the prime minister for embracing new technology to improve his government, while others express major concern over the potential risks of relying on AI to make critical decisions. CLICK TO GET KURT'S CYBERGUY NEWSLETTER WITH QUICK TIPS, TECH REVIEWS, SECURITY ALERTS AND EASY HOW-TO'S TO MAKE YOU SMARTER Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca is using AI to inform him of what voters want. The AI adviser has been named Ion (Romanian for John), and it is built within a long, mirror-like structure that has a moving graphic at the top to show that it is listening at all times.

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In June 2021, Dave Zvenyach, director of a group tasked with improving digital access to US government services, sent a Slack message to his team. He'd decided that Login.gov, which provides a secure way to access dozens of government apps and websites, wouldn't use selfies and face recognition to verify the identity of people creating new accounts. "The benefits of liveness/selfie do not outweigh any discriminatory impact," he wrote, referring to the process of asking users to upload a selfie and photo of their ID so that algorithms can compare the two. Face recognition technology has become more accurate, but many systems have been found to work less reliably for women with dark skin, people who identify as Asian, or people with a nonbinary gender identity. Yet Zvenyach's pronouncement also put Login.gov and US agencies using the service at odds with federal security guidelines.

America's top minds are apparently putting their all into developing space technology -- but we've gotta admit, we wouldn't really have had this in mind. As the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed in a blog post, the Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System (WORMS) modular lunar robot is intended to help NASA and other space agencies build and establish permanent Moon colonies by being able to do a bunch of different types of grunt work. "Robots could potentially do the heavy lifting [on a lunar colony] by laying cables, deploying solar panels, erecting communications towers, and building habitats," the press release reads. "But if each robot is designed for a specific action or task, a moon base could become overrun by a zoo of machines, each with its own unique parts and protocols." WORMS would head off that potential eventuality, MIT notes, by having mix-and-match components that can be traded in and off for whatever task is at hand -- and it's about as weird-looking as one could imagine a mix-and-match lunar robot could look, too.

When we think of artificial intelligence, we might think of robots like the ones in "Ex Machina," who are scarily smarter, closer to humans, and more perceptive than we think. The reality is that artificial intelligence is an innovative, growing field that offers creative opportunities for those who want to revolutionize the way we use technology. So, what is artificial intelligence, and what does a career in the field look like? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science concerning machines that can synthesize and process information to problem-solve. The concept first came into public view with Alan Turing's 1950 paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," which explored whether we could train machines to think like humans.

Digital marketing firm Voro is using ChatGPT, the popular new artificial intelligence program, to "supercharge" content creation for clients. Before ChatGPT, content had been "incredibly expensive" to create -- especially individualized content necessary for search engine visibility, said Chris Gauron, partner and CEO at the Minneapolis firm. Voro has created an artificial intelligence-assisted, but human-edited, process that increases speed at the same time it lowers cost. ChatGPT's power and potential have fueled explosive growth, reaching 100 million users in just two months. Reports that it passed exams in four University of Minnesota law courses, at the Wharton School of Business and the exam to become a licensed physician have only heightened interest globally.