Police should look at using artificial intelligence to help cope with the scale of information involved in investigations and avoid the kinds of mistakes that have led to a string of collapsed rape trials, a senior police chief said on Wednesday. Sara Thornton, the chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said the volume of data held by individuals had massively increased the number of potential lines of enquiry that officers must pursue to understand a case. In recent months, several rape prosecutions have been dropped after it emerged that police had failed to hand over evidence that undermined their cases. Since then, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced a review of all current rape cases and Nick Ephgrave, the NPCC's lead on criminal justice, has admitted that police have a "cultural problem" with disclosure. The attorney general's guidelines on disclosure say that police have a duty to pursue all reasonable lines of investigation, leading both towards and away from a conviction, Thornton said.

In 2004, while conducting training exercises over the Pacific Ocean, two US Navy pilots reported something extraordinary: a mysterious, blindingly fast flying object that caused the sea to boil, rotated mid-air, and could fly more than 60 miles in under a minute, despite having no visible means of propulsion. The episode was just one of many investigated by a highly secretive Department of Defense program that ran from 2007 to 2012 and was championed by a handful of US Senators. A New York Times report on the program mentioned a clandestine government warehouse in Nevada that may or may not be storing "alien alloys" recovered from similar flying objects. Once upon a time, rumors and revelations like these would have sent the public into a frenzy. They would have joined Roswell and Area 51 in the pantheon of UFO-conspiracy chatter.

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For Elon Musk, the term artificial intelligence conjures apocalyptic scenarios of autonomous robots wreaking destruction in a world dominated by hyper-intelligent machines. Stephen Hawking foresees a future in which smart machines replace sluggish humans across a range of activities, driving million...

There is a movement underway to ban involuntary pornography, videos that use machine learning libraries like TensorFlow to superimpose faces of unwilling participants onto porn actors' bodies. Yesterday as TC's Taylor Hatmaker noted, Reddit published a content policy banning such images and video, while also shutting down a series of subreddits devoted to the practice. Pornhub and other social media sites have similarly published such policies in recent weeks. Porn, though, is merely the harbinger of a world of involuntary, fake content. Earlier this week, political scientist Henry J. Farrell and Nixonland author Rick Perlstein wrote a column in the New York Times titled, "Our Hackable Political Future."

With each passing breakthrough in artificial intelligence, we're asking our machines to make increasingly complex and weighty decisions. Trouble is, AIs are starting to act beyond our levels of comprehension. In high frequency stock trading, for example, this had led to so-called flash crashes, in which algorithms make lightning-quick decisions for reasons we can't quite grasp. In an effort to bridge the growing gap between man and machine, the Pentagon is launching a new program to create machines that can explain their actions in a way we puny humans can understand. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is giving $6.5 million to eight computer science professors at Oregon State University's College of Engineering.

For Elon Musk, the term artificial intelligence conjures apocalyptic scenarios of autonomous robots wreaking destruction in a world dominated by hyper-intelligent machines. Stephen Hawking foresees a future in which smart machines replace sluggish humans across a range of activities, driving million...

Artificial intelligence is already redefining cybersecurity, exposing sophisticated attacks and adding a level of Terminator-style relentlessness to threat detection tools and anti-malware software. AI is even being used by a startup to scour the dark web for evidence that its customers have been hacked and their sensitive data is being peddled on illicit marketplaces. But what does the future hold for AI in cybersecurity? Here's what they had to say. "The future will see self-healing and self-defending networks, which can leverage AI to take steps to fight and defend the network," said Tom McAndrew, COO of Coalfire, a provider of cyber risk management and compliance services.

As indicated by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his Union budget 2018 speech, the Indian government's think tank NITI Aayog has geared itself to create a roadmap for National AI program. The initiative came on heels of China's three-step roadmap to become the world leader in artificial intelligence by 2030. The Indian National Program for AI will also be geared towards developing new applications of the AI technology. Reportedly, the high-level committee to create the artificial intelligence research and development roadmap will be headed by NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar and will be a mix of government, academia and industry officials. In January 2018, the government conducted a preliminary meeting wherein a number of people put forward their suggestions.

Artificial intelligence is growing at an astounding rate, but are we ready for the consequences? Cosmologist and MIT physics professor Max Tegmark guides us through the state of artificial intelligence today, and the many paths we might take in further developing this technology. This Frontiers Lecture, moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, took place in the Museum's Hayden Planetarium on January 8, 2018. Max Tegmark will be participating in the 2018 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate happening next week at the Museum. The podcast of that event will be available on February 15. ANNOUNCER: It is my pleasure to welcome not one but two of our amazing AMNH curators who will be introducing our presenter for the evening. First up we have Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON (Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium): Welcome to the universe. I've just got to see that that show of hands again, is this the first time you've ever attended a Hayden program? We've been here for 60 years. We do this every month.