However, the increasing prominence of AI has implications for every corner of the economy. From retail to transport, here's how AI promises to usher in a wave of change across industries. Monitoring weather patterns, managing pests and disease, working out the need for extra irrigation, or even which crops to grow where: many farmers believe agriculture is fertile ground for artificial intelligence. Many food producers are using AI to collect and analyse data in their efforts to improve productivity and profitability. AI's capacity for combining and analysing large datasets is already supplying farmers with real-time information on how to improve the health of their crops and increase yields.

A Ukrainian drone attack on an airbase for bombers in southern Russia in December left three people dead, Moscow said. The Ukrainian military did not officially admit to the attack, but air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said the explosions were the result of what Russia was doing on Ukrainian soil.

Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin discusses the war in Ukraine and the growing divide over the United States' role on'Sunday Night In America.' Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials on Tuesday to tighten up Russia's borders after the country saw a series of overnight drone strikes that allegedly targeted oil depots. In what appeared to be three separate attacks, Russia saw at least two strikes in its southern regions north of Georgia, as well as outside Moscow. Russia's RIA reported that one drone "crashed" near a gas distribution facility roughly 60 miles outside of Moscow. While nothing was hit and no injuries were reported following the incident, the regional governor said a "civilian infrastructure facility" was likely the target. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to promote new projects in Moscow Feb. 9, 2023.

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We live in a technological age--or so we are told. Machines promise to transform every facet of human life: robots will staff factory floors, driverless cars will rule the road, and artificial intelligence will govern weapons systems. Politicians and analysts fret over the consequences of such advances, worrying about the damage that will be done to industries and individuals. Governments, they argue, must help manage the costs of progress. These conversations almost always treat technological change as something to be adapted to, as if it were a force of nature, barreling inexorably into the staid conventions and assumptions of modern life. The pace of change seems irrepressible; new technologies will remake societies. All people can do is figure out how best to cope. Nowhere is this outlook more apparent than in the discussion of automation and its impact on jobs. My local grocery store in rural Utah has hung, with no apparent sense of irony, a sign proclaiming the company's support for U.S. workers above a self-checkout machine, a device that uses technology to replace the labor of an employee with the labor of the customer.

Elon Musk could soon join the AI race with an'anti-woke' ChatGPT rival that'would not censor its replies.' People familiar with the matter told The Information that Musk is assembling a team of AI researchers, including Igor Babuschki, who recently left Google's DeepMind AI unit. Babuschkin said he has not officially signed onto the Musk initiative. The project is in'the early stages,' but the goal is to develop'a trustworthy and reliable' chatbot. The move comes as the billionaire has repeatedly criticized OpenAI for placing safeguards on ChatGPT to prevent it from generating offensive dialogue.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered officials to tighten control of the border with Ukraine after a spate of drone attacks that Russian authorities blamed on Kyiv delivered a new challenge to Moscow a year after its full-scale invasion of its neighbour. One drone crashed on Tuesday just 100km (60 miles) southeast of Moscow in an alarming development for Russian defences. While Putin didn't refer to any specific attacks in a speech in the Russian capital, he stepped up border controls hours after drone attacks targeted several areas in southern and western Russia and authorities closed the airspace over St Petersburg in response to what some reports said was a drone. Also on Tuesday, several Russian television stations aired a missile attack warning that officials blamed on hacking. The drone attacks caused no casualties but provoked a security stir after the war in Ukraine marked its first anniversary last week.

The U.S. Congress is not usually what we think of as the leading edge of innovation. In fact, the legislative body's collective lack of technological proficiency is often pointed to as a liability when it comes to regulating new tech. But lawmakers in Washington and around the country have increasingly been turning to software to help them write and analyze legislation. Mohar Chatterjee is a computational journalist at Politico who recently covered the issue, and she says there's pretty much just one program lawmakers all use: LegisPro. Marketplace's Meghan McCarty Carino spoke to Chatterjee about what this process looks like in practice.

Lockheed Martin, which designed the jet, says it marks the first time AI has "engaged on a tactical aircraft." Add "fly a military fighter jet" to the list of tasks AI can accomplish. The Defense Department revealed last week that artificial intelligence flew a jet similar to an F-16 for 17 total hours over 12 flights. The series of flights happened in December at Edwards Air Force Base in California, using an experimental plane called the X-62A Vista. The jet was under the control of one of four different AI algorithms at any given time during the tests (though there were safety pilots on board at all times).

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to conduct two workshops in 2023, aiming to convene academic, commercial and government experts to foster discussions on developing trustworthy artificial intelligence for national security purposes. DARPA's Information Innovation Office will host a virtual workshop from June 13 to 16 and an in-person workshop in Boston, Massachusetts, from July 31 to Aug. 2 as part of its AI Forward initiative. Each event will be limited to 100 attendees. Interested individuals are tasked with submitting an executive summary by Mar. According to DARPA, research efforts need to be directed toward foundational theory, engineering and human-AI teaming to delimit the scope of AI systems, ensure their real-world functionality and make them trustworthy partners for people.