They went viral, amassing more than 1m streams on Spotify in a matter of weeks, but it later emerged that hot new band the Velvet Sundown were AI-generated – right down to their music, promotional images and backstory. The episode has triggered a debate about authenticity, with music industry insiders saying streaming sites should be legally obliged to tag music created by AI-generated acts so consumers can make informed decisions about what they are listening to. Initially, the "band", described as "a synthetic music project guided by human creative direction", denied they were an AI creation, and released two albums in June called Floating On Echoes and Dust And Silence, which were similar to the country folk of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Things became more complicated when someone describing himself as an "adjunct" member told reporters that the Velvet Sundown had used the generative AI platform Suno in the creation of their songs, and that the project was an "art hoax".

A spokesperson for the World Photography Organisation, the photography strand of art events organisers Creo, said that during their discussions with the artist, before he was announced as the winner, he had confirmed the piece was a "co-creation" of his image using AI.

So, if an AI makes something, who do we attribute it to? The person who initiated the prompts? Or the sources the AI used? Works are original when they are independently created by a human author and have a minimal degree of creativity. In this incident, British nature photographer David Slater set himself up between 2008 and 2011 to befriend a wild Celebes crested macaques troop.

Earlier this year, an interesting interview took place between two engineers working at Google and a'chatbot' called LaMDA, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications. Google engineer Blake Lemoine and his colleague had a strong suspicion that their creation LaMDA was actually sentient, that it could be perceptive and have feelings, and they wanted to check it out through their own version of the Turing Test. When asked whether LaMDA thought it was a person, it replied: "Absolutely. I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person." LaMDA was then asked that if this was so then what was the kind of consciousness or sentience it had, to which it replied: "The nature of my consciousness/sentience is that I am aware of my existence, I desire to learn more about the world, and I feel happy or sad at times."

Artificial Intelligence(AI) is actually the brand new digital frontier which will completely transform the way the we works and lives. At a fundamental amount of understanding, AI is the concept and development of computer devices which can carry out tasks that require human intelligence, for example visual perception, speech recognition as well as decision making. AI this term was first used in 1956 and since then half century, AI is developing gradually but no one had the idea about its extraordinary heap in the last one and a half decade. WIPO finds out that Machine Learning is the dominant AI technique as it covers 40% of all the patent inventions WIPO has studied. According to WIPO this industry is growing 28% every year since 2013.

Google battled Facebook to acquire artificial intelligence lab DeepMind in 2014 for a reported $660 million - but not everyone was happy with the move. "How in the world can you build a truly neutral artificial general intelligence under that company?" questions Humayun Sheikh, an early investor who helped London-based DeepMind commercialise the AI technology that Google now owns. Sheikh, who personally donated to DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis during the technology's very early stages, cut ties with the firm when it was sold to Google four years ago. DeepMind software lead Toby Simpson, creator of the "Creatures" game series in the 1990s, left the company. He believed the Google acquisition...

Finally, you can set your artificial intelligence creations free in Minecraft. Microsoft has announced a public release for Project Malmo, the company's system for testing AI software in Minecraft -- and for the first time, anyone can join in. Microsoft first made the system available to researchers in March under the name AIX, but this release marks the first time the code has been freely available to the public. The code is all available under an open-source license on Github, including a full tutorial on how to deploy your script on the platform, which is embedded below. The result isn't that different from typical AI test, in which code is deployed and observed in a test environment.

In the intellectual property plan, the government said it will consider a new registration system to protect rights for AI-created works. The system's coverage would be limited to creations with certain levels of marketability. The plan also called for the establishment of a group of municipal, school and company representatives to support intellectual property education. "We will work to enable everyone to create and use intellectual property," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said at a meeting of the Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters.