In 2029, the human race faces eradication and extinction by its own creation, a machine powered by a self-aware artificial intelligence (AI) program called Skynet. So goes the plot of The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenneger's hit movie from the '80s. In the movie, surviving humans formed a resistance against Skynet and the machines. Their plan was to destroy the company that created the AI to prevent Skynet from being created in the first place. When the movie was released, the very concept that machines could be self-aware was a far-fetched idea and simply a figment of the writer's imagination.

You may have heard the news of ChatGPT fooling professors. Recently, it bamboozled scientists with convincing AI papers. The reports came from a preprint from the scientific bioRxiv server in December 2022. Researchers asked ChatGPT to create 50 abstracts based on several scientific sources. They found that medical researchers struggled to distinguish the fakes from the originals.

It's been almost three years since GPT-3 was introduced, back in May 2020. Since then, the AI text-generation model has garnered a lot of interest for its ability to create text that looks and sounds like it was written by a human. Now it's looking like the next iteration of the software, GPT-4, is just around the corner, with an estimated release date of sometime in early 2023. Despite the highly anticipated nature of this AI news, the exact details on GPT-4 have been pretty sketchy. OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, has not publicly disclosed much information on the new model, such as its features or its abilities. Nevertheless, recent advances in the field of AI, particularly regarding Natural Language Processing (NLP), may offer some clues on what we can expect from GPT-4.

The end of 2022 came on the heels of AI technologies experiencing widespread adoption due to the stunning popularity of OpenAI and ChatGPT. For the first time, AI achieved mass-market appeal by proving its utility and value in creating successful business outcomes. Many AI technologies that seem like a revolution to everyday people in 2023 have actually been in active use by big businesses and media for several years. Join me as I take a closer look at the technology powering these solutions, in particular, generative AI systems for voice cloning, its business benefits, and ethical approaches to using AI. In short, voice cloning enables one person to speak using the voice of another person.

What Can Chat GPT Do? Do you want to know what Chat GPT can do? Chat GPT, short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is OpenAI's cutting-edge AI for understanding natural language. By anticipating the next word in a sequence based on the context of the words that came before it, it may generate language that is eerily similar to that produced by humans. However, what precisely is Chat GPT's purpose? Text creation is a key feature of Chat GPT.

On Thursday Amazon announced the Alexa Prize, a 1 million award for the creation of a conversational artificial intelligence that can talk to people "coherently and engagingly" for a third of an hour. To aid the endeavor, up to ten teams will get a 100,000 stipend from Amazon along with Alexa-enabled devices, free cloud computing and support from Amazon's Alexa team. The push comes as Amazon's digital assistant Alexa is coming to multiple platforms beyond its original home on Amazon's Echo speaker, and as artificial intelligence is anticipated to become the cutting edge of tech companies' interfaces with their customers. The Alexa Prize announcement comes the same day several of the world's largest tech companies announced the formation of a consortium aimed at fostering the promise of artificial intelligence.

Accordingly, the successful applicant will need knowledge and awareness of current research and practical challenges in Artificial Intelligence. The Department seeks to broaden and deepen its current strengths in these areas, so candidates engaged in research and teaching which complements that of the existing members of the Department will be considered favourably. Topics of interest in the area of Artificial Intelligence include, but are not limited to, deep learning, Bayesian reasoning and statistical methods, planning, neurosymbolic reasoning, safe and trusted AI, explainable AI, AI accountability, decision making in the presence of uncertainty, algorithmic bias, autonomous systems, and machine learning for vision or natural language processing.

Samsung's revamped Bixby takes on Amazon Alexa - Samsung announced it is upgrading its Bixby digital assistant and making it available for a range of connected devices, setting up a clash with Amazon's Alexa and others competing for leadership in artificial intelligence. The South Korean electronics giant, which is the world's biggest smartphone maker, launched Bixby last year but only for its own flagship Galaxy handsets....

What if you could wake up every morning and open the blinds before you crawl out from underneath the covers? Motorized shades are nothing new to the world of home design. But the light-blocking treatments have undergone a convenient--and smart--update in recent years. Like regular window treatments, smart blinds offer privacy, allow you to control the amount of outdoor light coming into your home, and may provide some relief to your energy bill by blocking out heat from the sun. And, just like typical window coverings, smart blinds come in a variety of styles, fabrics, and designs.

Appliances, even large ones, are getting in on the action. But that doesn't mean you need to toss your old "dumb" stuff and buy brand new smart devices. Air conditioners are certainly one type of appliance that is heading down the smart path, but if you have a window or wall unit you already love (or can't afford to replace), you might consider turning your dumb unit into a smart A/C. With a few tweaks, you can convert the unit you have into a cooling solution you can turn on and off remotely with an app or through your favorite smart home ecosystems, such as Google Assistant or Alexa. A window or wall unit (or a portable A/C) works just fine when you manually turn it on with buttons, so why is it even necessary to make it smart?