Breakthroughs in technology are bound to happen. If human history has shown anything then that technological advancements are an essential driving force of human culture and that societies that stop to innovate will fall behind. Humans have always been fascinated by machines and attempted to invent ever better ones that could take over more and more tasks that otherwise required human labor, from the early cranes in Mesopotamia, to the power loom, steam engine, all the way to the first industrial robots (such as welding robots in the automotive industry), to modern day aircraft, spacecraft, self-driving cars, and other kinds of autonomous machines. While machines initially were nothing but prostheses, augmenting and extending our own limited actuation capabilities, as they had to be operated by humans, automation introduced self-sufficient machines that replaced human control with artificial, albeit limited control systems that allowed for the performance of simple repeated tasks.

At the moment they may exist only in our wildest dreams or in Hollywood science-fiction epics. But humanoid robots that wash dishes, vacuum the carpets, cook and pick up dirty laundry could be available within a decade – and all for the price of a family car. These machines – equipped with hands, arms and legs capable of doing basic household chores – are currently in development around the world. Pulkit Agrawal, associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said: 'Silicon Valley companies are promising this year you can buy a robot, but my guess would be more like five to ten years, at least. 'The technology is progressing, but it's good to be realistic that it will take time to deploy.'

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been successful in numerous areas including speech recognition, automatic classification, language translation, Chess, Go, facial recognition, disease diagnosis, drug discovery, driverless cars, autonomous drones, and most recently linguistically competent chatbots. Yet none of these machines is the slightest bit intelligent and many of the more recent ones are untrustworthy. Businesses and governments are using AI machines in an exploding number of sensitive and critical applications without having a good grasp on when those machines can be trusted. From its beginnings, AI as a field has been plagued with hype. Many researchers and developers were so enthusiastic about the possibilities that they overpromised what they could deliver.

This colossal sci-fi thriller from Gareth Edwards features John David Washington and Gemma Chan in vast mysterious panoramas and vertiginous vistas which deserve to be shown at Imax-plus scale; it also shows that Christopher Nolan isn't the only British director in Hollywood thinking (and acting) big. After a stint making franchise movies such as Godzilla and the enjoyable and underrated Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Edwards has now crafted this ambitious original picture, co-written with Chris Weitz, which is closer in spirit to his ingenious 2010 debut Monsters. The Creator is an old-fashioned science-fiction actioner with some ideas to match to state-of-the-art digital effects, in the tradition of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner or Neill Blomkamp's District 9, with a creeping colonialist's fear of the unknown to match that in Coppola's Apocalypse Now. And given that Edwards has served some time aboard the Star Wars mother ship, it shouldn't be too surprising to find some holograms in the mix and a certain dustbin-sized droid which whimpers something poignant about what an honour it's been to serve his comrades before lumbering out to face the enemy on a kamikaze mission. Washington shows us some more of that distinctive self-possession and even slight hauteur as a performer, in playing Josh, a US army special forces undercover officer, fighting a strange, dirty war in a postnuclear world upended by the dominance of artificial intelligence.

Generative AI techniques have opened the path for new generations of machines in diverse domains. These machines have various capabilities for example, they can produce images, generate answers or stories, and write codes based on the "prompts" only provided by users. These machines are considered 'thinking minds' because they have the ability to generate human-like responses. In this study, we have analyzed and explored the capabilities of artificial intelligence-enabled machines. We have revisited on Turing's concept of thinking machines and compared it with recent technological advancements. The objections and consequences of the thinking machines are also discussed in this study, along with available techniques to evaluate machines' cognitive capabilities. We have concluded that Turing Test is a critical aspect of evaluating machines' ability. However, there are other aspects of intelligence too, and AI machines exhibit most of these aspects.

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Podcast, where we break down the biggest stories in tech with the people who covered them. The internet is always changing, but something about generative AI feels different. With the advent of OpenAI's ChatGPT, the machines are evolving beyond remix and delivery machines to become the content creators themselves. In this week's episode, Darrell Etherington talks with Techcrunch senior reporter Devin Coldewey about how the AI hype is overshadowing some of its shadier possible cultural side effects. Use promo code TCPOD to get 40% off Founder and Investor passes to Early Stage on April 20 in Boston.

Although artificial intelligence has a growing role in journalism, research finds that Americans don’t know about AI’s role in their lives—or their news. Technology has repeatedly transformed the news media industry—telegraph, radio, television, and then the internet. Yet despite these evolutions, technology remained the medium and human journalists the messengers. The introduction of AI has changed that model. Today, AI machines designed to perform the communicator role are generating news content independent of humans. That means AI is the medium and the messenger, giving human journalists a new synthetic partner programmed to aid in news gathering. The new study finds many Americans are…

The internet lit up the day ChatGPT was launched. Almost everyone across every social media platform plugged in to assess just how intelligent it was. Undoubtedly, it beat the people's imagination and had their mouths agape with ghostly stupefaction. Like jeez, it did not only write computer programs, poems, essays, and everything in between and extended; it also wrote them with such finesse, clarity, and relativity that can be credited to a brilliantly intelligent human. It even got 1020 on the SAT.

Azeem Azhar: Ultimately, we're living beings who've lived in a world that hasn't moved at exponential rates, and so we get caught out by the speed with which these technologies improve. Annie Veillet: Is it too late to start, and to start putting in the right frameworks and controls? Azeem: Society was really disengaged. It looked at technology as manna from heaven that bright and brilliant people produced as gifts from the gods--and far be it for us to ever ask a critical question of it. And we need to stop doing that, right? We need to be there and ask those questions. Lizzie O'Leary: From PwC's management publication strategy and business, this is Take on Tomorrow, the podcast that brings together experts from around the globe to figure out what business could and should be doing to tackle some of the biggest issues we face. Developments such as AI are changing the way we live. But what happens when those changes happen too quickly for business to deal with?

The Wall Street Journal's Gerry Baker weighs in on growing fears over the capabilities of artificial intelligence technology on'Your World.' FOX Business host Gerry Baker – who wrote an op-ed in Monday's Wall Street Journal, "Is There Anything ChatGPT's AI'Kant' Do?" – outlined the implications of the increased prevalence of artificial intelligence technology in modern society and the questions and fears AI sparks Tuesday on '"Your World." That we are creating these machines that in the end will come and control us, and tell us what we're going to do. What I was interested in looking at was not so much what machines can tell us about factual information, but whether or not it's possible these machines might develop any sort of a moral sense, might be able to tell us what's right or wrong. You can ask it all kinds of moral questions like, "Is it ever right to kill someone?" or "Is it ever right to tell a lie or things like that?" And it gives you kind of a mix of answers.