You'd be hard pressed to find IT news these days that doesn't mention artificial intelligence (AI). Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk continue to warn people of what a world with perfected AI might look like, while sci-fi films like The Terminator and The Matrix bring these fears to the big screen. But still AI research pushes on. Debates about AI capabilities often boil down to whether or not Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) can be achieved. The definition of AGI is heavily debated, but primarily refers to a machine with the same intellectual capabilities as a human.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the car company is not at fault. The design of Tesla's partially self-driving system contributed to a crash that killed an Ohio man in May 2016, a federal transportation official said Tuesday. National Transportation Safety Board chair Robert Sumwalt said the Tesla vehicle's "operational limitations played a major role in this collision." His statement came at the beginning of a hearing where the NTSB is expected to rule on whether the Autopilot system on Ohio resident Joshua Brown's Tesla Model S should be blamed for the Florida crash that killed him. Brown was relying on Autopilot's self-accelerating, steering and braking when he slammed into a semi-truck and died instantly.

Rolls-Royce has unveiled it's newest version of the Phantom family, the Phantom VIII. Rolls-Royce released this photo of the concept version of its autonomous naval ship. Engineering giant Rolls-Royce plans to make an autonomous navy ship, powered by artificial intelligence, sophisticated sensors and advanced propulsion, for sale to militaries throughout the world. The British company, known for its aircraft engines and luxury automotive heritage, revealed a concept version of the naval vessel in multiple photos released Tuesday. Amid increasing concern among some technologists about the prospect of self-aware artificial intelligence systems becoming a threat to humanity, Rolls-Royce said it was already conducting "significant analysis of potential cyber risks" to "ensure end-to-end security."

Elon Musk's latest prediction about artificial intelligence isn't going to soothe your nerves. The entrepreneur, who's been known to speak in hyperbole from time to time (remember that his reasoning for getting to Mars is to save humanity), dreamed up another worst-case outcome for A.I.: causing World War III. Putin recently said that A.I. "is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind ... Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world." Musk tweeted cryptically, "It begins." Musk went on to say the war could be started by the A.I. itself, possibly by an A.I. system launching an automated preemptive strike against one of its challengers.

Top UK law firms are ahead of their US counterparts in the use of artificial intelligence (AI), an index of legal service delivery innovation has suggested. The Legal Services Innovation Index, based on internet searches of law firm websites for indications of innovation, was devised by the College of Law at Michigan State University in the US. Academics searched the websites of firms from the Am Law 200, Global 100, and the Canadian top 30, in August 2017. They looked for mentions of innovations in 10 categories, including data analytics, AI (including'machine learning'), blockchain (including'smart contracts'), and alternative fee arrangements. In the results, by jurisdiction UK law firm websites returned 2,068 page'hits' in total for the 10 search terms, compared to 672 for the US firms and 666 for Chinese firms.

Voters have a right to keep their political beliefs private. But according to some researchers, it won't be long before a computer program can accurately guess whether people are liberal or conservative in an instant. All that will be needed are photos of their faces. Michal Kosinski – the Stanford University professor who went viral last week for research suggesting that artificial intelligence (AI) can detect whether people are gay or straight based on photos – said sexual orientation was just one of many characteristics that algorithms would be able to predict through facial recognition. Using photos, AI will be able to identify people's political views, whether they have high IQs, whether they are predisposed to criminal behavior, whether they have specific personality traits and many other private, personal details that could carry huge social consequences, he said.

Premier Lin Chuan, who once served as chairman of Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), and his Cabinet members will resign en masse on September 7, casting uncertainty over the future policies concerning Taiwan's development of AI (artificial intelligence), IoT (Internet of Things), innovation startups and other technologies. Lin has disclosed he tendered his resignation at the end of a national security meeting on September 3 on grounds that he had finished his phased missions. President Tsai Ing-wen has appointed Tainan Mayor William Lai as his succesor, who will take office on September 8. Having served as VIS chairman during 2006-2009, Lin has shown deep understanding of and given high priority to the development of Taiwan's semiconductor and electronics industries. The outgoing premier has identified AI as a key to improving national competitiveness in the next three decades, and has given great support for the Ministry of Science and Technology's (MOST) proposal to build an AI innovation ecosystem in Taiwan. He has instructed the ministry to set up an AI innovation R&D center, and establish robot manufacturing bases in Central Taiwan Science Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park, as well as other related infrastructures.

A significant literature studies ways of employing prior knowledge to improve power and precision of multiple testing procedures. Some common forms of prior knowledge may include (a) a priori beliefs about which hypotheses are null, modeled by non-uniform prior weights; (b) differing importances of hypotheses, modeled by differing penalties for false discoveries; (c) multiple arbitrary partitions of the hypotheses into known (possibly overlapping) groups, indicating (dis)similarity of hypotheses; and (d) knowledge of independence, positive or arbitrary dependence between hypotheses or groups, allowing for more aggressive or conservative procedures. We present a unified algorithmic framework called p-filter for global null testing and false discovery rate (FDR) control that allows the scientist to incorporate all four types of prior knowledge (a)-(d) simultaneously, recovering a wide variety of common algorithms as special cases.

This is the controversial AI computer program that researchers claim can determine if someone is gay or not just by looking at a photograph of their face. According to the Stanford University researchers who developed it, the artificial intelligence system can infer someone's sexuality with up to 91 percent accuracy by scanning a photograph of a man or woman. But critics have slammed the software, saying it could be used to'out' men and women currently in the closet. Software was used to make composite faces. On left are faces'least likely' to be homosexual, and center are faces'most likely' to be homosexual.

The chief executive of Deutsche Bank has issued a stark warning about the impact of technology, saying a "big number" of his staff will lose their jobs as robots take over. In remarks reported by German publication Handelsblatt at a conference in Frankfurt, Cryan added: "The sad truth for the banking industry is, we won't need as many people as today." Cryan told the conference that Germany and Frankfurt had to decide how much they wanted to benefit from Brexit. While new finance jobs will be created in Dublin, Amsterdam and Paris – all vying for business leaving London – none of these have the infrastructure to take on the business.