Last year, Microsoft was forced to shut down its chatbot, Tay, after the system became corrupted with hate speech. While the firm's second chatbot, Zo, seemed to be more censored, a new report suggests that it could be suffering the same ill fate as its predecessor. During a recent chat, Zo referred to the Qur'an as'very violent' and even gave its opinion on Osama bin Laden's capture, despite the fact that it has been programmed to avoid discussing politics and religion. During a recent chat, Zo referred to the Qur'an as'very violent', despite the fact that it has been programmed to avoid discussing politics and religion Zo is a chatbot that allows users to converse with a mechanical millennial over the messaging app Kik or through Facebook Messenger. The chatbot can answer questions and respond to prompts, while using teenage slang, and emoji.

According to scientists and legal experts, responding to the bank's warning this November, there is now an urgent need for the development of intelligent algorithms to be put on the political agenda. Top of the agenda as far as Lightfoot is concerned is the economic impact if AI cuts large amounts of jobs and the incomes from people, how will they make a living and what will they do, a concern that Professor Toby Walsh, an expert in AI at Australia's University of New South Wales and a prominent campaigner against the use of AI in military weapons, says is justified and one that needs to be urgently considered. Though Professor Walsh and fellow AI expert Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics at London's Imperial College were wary of calls for regulation of the sector, which they said, would inhibit research. According to Professor Walsh scientists working in AI have already started to exercise a degree of self-control over the exploitation of the discoveries being made in AI the areas that need to be focussed on are the ramifications of the technology.

The invasion of robots into factories and offices has long been seen as final blow for workforces ravaged by cheap offshore labour and the never ending quest to cut costs. However, that is a view being seriously challenged in hi-tech steel fabricating factory just south of Brisbane. Having put "artificially intelligent" welding and cutting equipment to work, Smart Steel Systems chief executive Chis Brugeaud said he was now able to bring back jobs "onshore" and reverse the trend of laying off people as technology improves. "What makes us different from the traditional fabricator is we have as many developers as we do welders, so we can process around 42,000 tonnes of steel a year," Mr Brugeaud told The Business program. Robotics has delivered two noticeable outcomes.

Alphabet's autonomous-car business, Waymo, has streamlined its lawsuit against Uber, dropping three claims of patent infringement entirely and focusing on a single case of alleged patent theft. The patents are not actually Waymo's main concern in this lawsuit -- the company claims Uber stole trade secrets relating to its self-driving LiDAR technology when it hired former Alphabet employees last year. Waymo says former self-driving leader Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential design files before leaving Alphabet and founding his own self-driving start-up, which was swiftly bought out by Uber. US District Judge William Alsup asked Waymo in June to streamline the patent side of its case from 121 claims of theft to fewer than 10, so as not to overwhelm a jury. He even suggested Waymo drop the patents from its case entirely.

Remember when you had to register your drone, regardless of whether it was hulking thousand-dollar pro model, or some cheap toy off Amazon? Then, remember when the FAA then realised it violated its own rules? Well, that decision in the US Court of Appeals means that the ever-growing drone pilots of America can now apply for a refund if they had previously registered their flying'bot. There are rules, however: To qualify for the refund, owners need to reiterate that their drone is used only for recreation and in accordance with community safety guidelines -- of course. If you're ticking those boxes, you can find the rest of the application form here, so send that off and start imagining what you're going to do with that sweet fiver.

Luminance has been selected by the law firm Portolano Cavallo, in the first Italian client win for the leader in artificial intelligence for the legal industry. Portolano will use Luminance's artificial intelligence technology to improve the efficiency of its M&A due diligence across its Milan, Rome and New York offices. Portolano selected Luminance after completing a successful pilot of the technology in which they found 35% time savings on document reviews alone. The top-ranked firm will use Luminance to assist its lawyers in dealing with multilingual documents in cross-jurisdictional reviews. As they examine more Italian documents using the system, Luminance will learn by example to recognise Italian clause and document types.

Last week, a report about sex robots warned about the'dark side' of the technology, which could involve issues of rape and paedophilia. And now The Salvation Army has had its say on the controversial sexbots. The charity claims that sex robots could'fuel demand for sex with people', and even lead traffickers to exploit more vulnerable individuals to meet this demand. The Salvation Army claims that sex robots could'fuel demand for sex with people', and even lead traffickers to exploit more vulnerable individuals to meet this demand And it indicates that sexbots could normalise a distorted power dynamic which devalues the other person involved when transferred to human interactions. This could encourage the objectification of women and children and a lack of respect for fellow human beings, according to the charity.

Open Google and type in the job you want, like "tech lawyer jobs" in the search field. It will search across virtually all the major online job boards and list them under a blue "Jobs" bar. Google lists those jobs that are physically closest to you, and organizes the results in categories, such as "associate," "counsel," "corporate counsel," etc. You can also filter by city, date posted, company type, etc. It features a "job alerts" tool, so that you can tell the program to send you a notice when a job meeting your criteria comes up.

Can you remember the Matrix? We might not all be plugged in, but now both our personal and business lives are plugged on. Whether it's Siri, Alexa or Clever Nelly, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become our solution, a go-to or even'friend' in the workplace. The whole basis of AI is that IT mimics cognitive functions such as learning and problem solving, and – although it first initiated in the 1960s – the speed of processors today have contributed to its boom. AI is perfect for the workplace, so what do you need to know about it?

Seattle startup TurboPatent is releasing a pair of new products designed to improve the patent application process, with help from artificial intelligence. TurboPatent, which raised $1.4 million in funding earlier this year, focuses on corporations and law firms, automating tasks like formatting or document preparation, for example, freeing up people to work on more complex, high-value work. The service is designed to cut costs, save time and lead to more accurate patent documentation. The new products are called RoboReview and RapidResponse. RoboReview uses AI and predictive analytics to automatically analyze and review draft patent applications.