Elon Musk caused a media stir recently. Not for his innovative technologies or promises to commercialize space travel. In front of a meeting of the National Governors Association, the Tesla CEO warned attendees that "[Artificial Intelligence] AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization." Based on his observations, Musk cautioned that AI is "the scariest problem." It's not the first time he's sounded this alarm.

If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China. The country laid out a development plan on Thursday to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030, aiming to surpass its rivals technologically and build a domestic industry worth almost $150 billion. Released by the State Council, the policy is a statement of intent from the top rungs of China's government: The world's second-largest economy will be investing heavily to ensure its companies, government and military leap to the front of the pack in a technology many think will one day form the basis of computing. The plan comes with China preparing a multibillion-dollar national investment initiative to support "moonshot" projects, start-ups and academic research in A.I., according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort. The United States, meanwhile, has cut back on science funding.

China's government has proclaimed a goal of turning into a worldwide leader in artificial intelligence in only over a decade, putt political muscle behind growing investment by Chinese corporations in developing self-driving cars and completely different advances. Communist leaders see AI as key to creating China an "economic power," same a cupboard statement on weekend. It involves developing skills and analysis and academic resources to realize "major breakthroughs" by 2025 and build China a world leader by 2030. Artificial intelligence is one in every of the rising fields at the side of renewable energy, AI and electrical cars wherever communist leaders hope to require an early lead and facilitate remodel China from a nation of factory employees and farmers into a technology pioneer. Manufacturers are also putting in robots and different automation to deal with rising labor prices and improve potency.

LONDON – British officials announced plans Saturday to further regulate drone use in a bid to prevent accidents and threats to commercial aviation. The new rules will require drones that weigh 226.79 grams or more to be registered and users will have to pass a safety awareness exam. The government acted because of concerns that a midair collision between a drone and an aircraft could cause a major disaster. Pilots have reported numerous near-misses in the last year alone in Britain. Earlier this month London's Gatwick Airport briefly closed its runway over safety concerns when a drone was spotted in the area and several planes had to be diverted.

Elon Musk caused a media stir recently. Not for his innovative technologies or promises to commercialize space travel. In front of a meeting of the National Governors Association, the Tesla CEO warned attendees that "[Artificial Intelligence] AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization." Based on his observations, Musk cautioned that AI is "the scariest problem." It's not the first time he's sounded this alarm.

SHANGHAI--A Chinese startup that sells facial recognition systems to police forces secured venture-capital funding that values it at more than $1.5 billion, underscoring the sector's emergence as one of technology's hottest areas of interest. Beijing-based SenseTime Co., which provides surveillance systems using facial recognition to Chinese law enforcement agencies, said Tuesday it raised $410 million in new funding from investors, lifting it to so-called unicorn status with a value of more than $1 billion. Using artificial intelligence, facial recognition systems from SenseTime and others can identify people in a crowd by matching their faces against those on file in image databases. Facial recognition works by breaking down a person's face into a series of measurements and using them to create a template that can be compared with others in a database. In China, adoption has been especially swift, aided by a large network of surveillance cameras, a national photo ID index and relatively few concerns about privacy.

When artificial intelligence (AI) is discussed today, most people are referring to machine learning algorithms or deep learning systems. While AI has advanced significantly over the years, the principle behind these technologies remains the same. Someone trains a system to receive certain data and asks it to produce a specified outcome -- it's up to the machine to develop its own algorithm to reach this outcome. Alas, while we've been able to create some very smart systems, they are not foolproof. Data science competition platform Kaggle wants to prepare AI systems for super-smart cyberattacks, and they're doing so by pitting AI against AI in a contest dubbed the Competition on Adversarial Attacks and Defenses.

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A stand-alone exhibit titled, "Innovations in Defense: Artificial Intelligence and the Challenge of Cybersecurity," features Pittsburgh-based team ForAllSecure's Mayhem Cyber Reasoning System. The system took first place at the August 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge finals, beating out six other computers. The Mayhem CRS is now on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. The exhibit was produced by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The exhibit will run through Sept. 17, 2017.

The first ever conversation between two simple artificial intelligence agents ended in an argument. You can see it here. Wikipedia needs bots to help manage 40 million articles in 293 languages. They aren't intended to work against each other. A study found that bots are far more likely to argue than human editors on (the English) Wikipedia.