David Bellavia, Dr. Richard Jadick, and Ozzie Martinez Jr. weigh in on the intensifying war in Ukraine after Russia fired more than 100 missiles. They also reflect on the military's efforts in the Battle of Fallujah. Russia will deploy violent soccer fans, known as "hooligans" or "ultras," to Ukraine in an effort to bolster troop numbers as the conflict enters its 11th month. "What is very clear is that Putin will not end this war any time soon," Rebekah Koffler, president of Doctrine & Strategy Consulting and a former DIA intelligence officer, told Fox News Digital. "He will use hooligans, prisoners, and any sort of thug to continue flowing fighters into Ukraine, to keep it from becoming part of NATO. The mission is this important."

It seemed as if the world was plunging from one crisis to another this year. Just as most countries broke free from the shackles of the pandemic, the horror of war returned to Europe, millions around the world suffered at the hands of extreme weather, and the double pain of energy shortages and inflation arrived. Here's our rundown of the best news to come out of 2022. More than one-fifth of all electricity in the US now comes from hydropower, wind, and solar, meaning that renewables have narrowly overtaken coal and nuclear, which make up 20 percent and 19 percent of the energy mix respectively. The only other year this was the case was 2020--but back then overall power generation was reduced due to the pandemic.

Ukraine said Friday it repelled a nighttime drone attack from Russia, a day after Moscow launched a new wave of missile strikes in the run-up to New Year celebrations. The attacks came 10 months into Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. In recent months Russian strikes have targeted the energy grid, leaving millions in the cold in the middle of winter. Ukraine's air force said on Friday morning that Russia attacked Ukraine overnight using "Iranian-made kamikaze drones". A total of 16 drones were launched from the southeastern and northern directions and they were "all" destroyed by Ukraine's air defence, it said.

ChatGPT's interactive interface that was made publicly accessible for testing and feedback has since gone viral on social media, with questions ranging from math problems to software programming source codes being generated by the AI tool. While ChatGPT has certain restrictions imposed on it, the viral social experiment underway through its interface raises several questions on how AI can potentially blur the lines between creative products resulting from human cognition and programmatically generated text that is almost human-like. The ease with which the AI tool is able to generate fiction in response to queries also poses questions on how to assess the truth quotient of artificially generated creative products. As an instance, when asked to compose an essay on events that may not have occurred historically, the AI tool got its dates mixed up. Fictional products from generative AI are perhaps less of a worry than students using it to draft project reports, solutions to assignments, and more.

Five years ago, Future Tense Fiction started publishing a short science-fiction story each month. Our goal was simple: to give people more tools to imagine our future through tales that inspire us to weigh reasons for concern against excitement, caution against exploration. More than 60 stories later--plus accompanying response essays and art--we've covered mobility and A.I. ethics, space exploration and biometric surveillance, gig work and military tech, gender and the relationships between humans and animals … and much more. The stories serve as both alarm clocks and lighthouses, waking us up to challenges stemming from scientific and technological change and guiding us toward possible ways forward. They are written by authors and journalists, but also by researchers, doctors, and policymakers, from the U.S. and elsewhere (Hong Kong, Norway, Mexico, Sri Lanka, and Nigeria, to name a few).

It's been another interesting year in the world of artificial intelligence. We've seen large language models grow even larger, conferences returning to physical events, a raft of new policy developments, and machine learning techniques applied across the arts. Buckle up and join us for the ride as we review the year just gone. Research into both fundamental and applied aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning continues apace. Yue Ma and colleagues used machine-learning techniques to identify antimicrobial peptides encoded by the genome sequences of microbes in the human gut.

The European Union is set to create the world's first broad standards for regulating or banning certain uses of artificial intelligence in 2023 The European Union is set to create the world's first broad standards for regulating artificial intelligence. As well as determining how the technology affects the lives of almost 450 million citizens in the 27 countries of the EU, the rules are likely to influence how AI is used elsewhere in the world. "The idea is that you have a harmonised system, which is really good," says Sandra Wachter at the University of Oxford.

Residents of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv were urged to head to air raid shelters as sirens wailed across the city early on Friday morning, a day after Russia carried out the biggest aerial assault since it started the war in February. Shortly after 2:00am (00:00 GMT), Kyiv's city government issued an alert on its Telegram messaging app calling on residents to proceed to shelters. Oleksiy Kuleba, governor of the Kyiv region, said on Telegram that an "attack by drones" was under way. A Reuters witness 20km (12 miles) south of Kyiv heard several explosions and the sound of anti-aircraft fire. Local media outlet The Kyiv Independent reported that air raid alerts were blaring in the Kyiv, Cherkasy and Kirovohrad regions due to possible Russian drone attacks.

Ethical AI will need careful planting of many ecosystems. Ethical AI has been a concern of AI leaders, and practitioners for many years, but finally it seems, global jurisdictions are starting to move from policy formulation and stakeholder engagement to putting some teeth into drafting legal bills or acts. Expect many new laws to pass in 2023, tightening up citizen privacy and creating risk frameworks and audit requirements for data bias, privacy and security risks. At the same time, regulators are going to have to evolve an entire global ecosystem to ensure AI audits are effectively conducted and many questions loom as to who will validate certifications for AI audit practices and will we over burden AI innovations like we have done in so many other regulated operating practices that the risk and costs of non-conformance inhibit's innovation and capital funding? Finding a balance will be key.

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