The Arcane Kids, a video game collective from Los Angeles, have a manifesto that I think about all the time, but particularly when I find art that surprises me, or approaches traditional formats in new and exciting ways. The second line simply states: "The fastest way to the truth is a joke." Another Crab's Treasure, the second offering from indie Australian studio Aggro Crab, is full of truth and jokes – and something else, something rarer, too. Another Crab's Treasure is ostensibly a combat-oriented adventure game, in which you play a tiny hermit crab whose shell has been stolen. You must explore the depths of the ocean to find a way to retrieve it from the Loan Shark, so you can return the wee crab to his peaceful life in the tide pools on the shore.

Proponents say such practices may help reduce use-of-force incidents. The United Nations Security Council held its first discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) and associated risks, with a number of leaders highlighting the dangerous potential the technology possesses in the wrong hands. "The malicious use of AI systems for terrorist, criminal or state purposes could cause horrific levels of deaths and destruction, widespread trauma and deep psychological damage on an unimaginable scale," U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in his remarks at the meeting. "Generative AI has enormous potential for good and evil at scale." "Its creators themselves have warned that much bigger, potentially catastrophic and existential risks lie ahead," he added.

Malicious use of artificial intelligence systems could cause a "horrific" amount of death and destruction, the UN secretary general has said, calling for a new UN body to tackle the threats posed by the technology. António Guterres said harmful use of AI for terrorist, criminal or state purposes could also cause "deep psychological damage", and he said AI-enabled cyber-attacks were already targeting UN peacekeeping and humanitarian operations. "The malicious use of AI systems for terrorist, criminal or state purposes could cause horrific levels of death and destruction, widespread trauma and deep psychological damage on an unimaginable scale," Guterres said. Speaking at the first UN security council session on AI, he said the advent of generative AI – the term for AI tools such as ChatGPT that produce convincing text, image and voice from human prompts – could be a defining moment for disinformation and hate speech and add a "new dimension" to the manipulation of human behaviour. Guterres called for the creation of a new UN entity along the lines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to tackle the risks.

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Zendesk today announced it has acquired Cleverly.ai, Zendesk says it will integrate Cleverly's technology across its existing products, enabling teams to automate more processes while keeping up with customer demand. With conversation volume increasing by more than 20% year-over-year, customer support teams are struggling to keep up. As a result, businesses are increasingly turning to AI to provide faster and more reliable service. A 2020 IDC survey found that automated customer service agents are a top priority for companies with over 5,000 employees.

At Zendesk, we believe a key component of providing great customer experiences includes ensuring your agents are armed with the right tools and processes to deliver them. But with conversation volume increasing by more than 20 percent year over year, over a growing number of channels, support teams are struggling to keep up. As a result, businesses increasingly turn to AI to provide faster and more reliable service and make teams more efficient. That's why we're excited to announce that today Cleverly is joining the Zendesk team. Cleverly provides AI-powered solutions with insight-driven automation that makes support teams more productive.

As a FP&A professional, you have a gift for numbers. As technology evolves, it's becoming easier to simplify activities across the entire FP&A spectrum. With the right set-up, a company can automate repetitive business processes and directly integrate data from numerous sources. Can humans compete with the amazing speed and accuracy of technology? Even the best of us have limits: we max out at a 10-key speed of 10,000 KPH and, as of yet, there is no mental cloud where all our brains are hosted.

Think machines can't be creative? This awesome use of artificial intelligence to make epic dinosaur art will make you question that assumption. Neural networks can do some awesome things, from allowing cars to drive on their own to instantly translating dozens of languages. But when it comes to our personal favorite use cases, we're going with one recently engineered by Australian artist Chris Rodley. By combining a deep-learning algorithm, a book of dinosaur pictures, and a book of flower paintings, he's created some of the trippiest images this side of an M.C. "The tech that makes this work isn't mine, but was created by a team of researchers from Germany who published a paper on it two years ago," Rodley told Digital Trends. "The idea of the group, led by Leon Gatys, was to transfer an art style as represented in a sample print to a target photograph.

Over the last few weeks, there's been a lot of anxiety over Apple's ability to compete in artificial intelligence -- the mega-hot space that companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft see as the next big thing. At today's WWDC conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook and the rest of the presenters pulled off a neat trick: Totally and utterly rebutting that claim, without ever bringing it up once. The message is clear, if you read between the lines. Apple is signaling that artificial intelligence is the future, but that its belief on user experience trumps everything else. For instance, the iPhone is getting voicemail transcription with the next iOS update, due in the fall.