A "cocaine addicted" police officer who was found to be stealing drugs from an evidence store after he accidentally dropped a bag of white powder at his daughter's school has been jailed. Andrew Talbot, at the time a Greater Manchester Police detective, had taken just under 4kg (9lb) of cocaine worth almost 400,000 from police property rooms between 2018 and 2020. He also used the force's computer systems to find a drug dealer to help him sell the drugs on the streets of Manchester. The 54-year-old was found guilty of supplying the drug and misconduct in public office and sentenced to 19 years in jail at Liverpool Crown Court.GMPThe detective stole drugs from Greater Manchester's Police evidence rooms Sentencing him on Friday, Judge Neil Flewitt KC said Talbot had deceived colleagues to put a "significant" quantity of cocaine back into circulation as a result of his "addiction and greed". The investigation into Talbot by GMP's anti-corruption unit began in February 2020 after he dropped a small bag of cocaine outside his daughter's primary school.

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted much attention to value alignment for their responsible development. However, how to define values in this context remains a largely unexplored question. Existing work mainly follows the Helpful, Honest, Harmless principle and specifies values as risk criteria formulated in the AI community, e.g., fairness and privacy protection, suffering from poor clarity, adaptability and transparency. Inspired by basic values in humanity and social science across cultures, this work proposes a novel basic value alignment paradigm and introduces a value space spanned by basic value dimensions. All LLMs' behaviors can be mapped into the space by identifying the underlying values, possessing the potential to address the three challenges. To foster future research, we apply the representative Schwartz's Theory of Basic Values as an initialized example and construct FULCRA, a dataset consisting of 5k (LLM output, value vector) pairs. Our extensive analysis of FULCRA reveals the underlying relation between basic values and LLMs' behaviors, demonstrating that our approach not only covers existing mainstream risks but also anticipates possibly unidentified ones. Additionally, we present an initial implementation of the basic value evaluation and alignment, paving the way for future research in this line.

Francesca Mani and her mother Dorota join'The Ingraham Angle' to demand accountability for victims. Francesca Mani told "The Ingraham Angle" that the principal at Westfield High School recently notified her that she was one of multiple victims. "After that, I just felt, like, betrayed because I never thought it'd be my classmate, and when I came home, I told my mom and I said, 'We need to do something about this because it's not OK, and people are making it seem like it is.'" Mani said she never personally witnessed the explicit images, but that she felt betrayed. Mani said she believes she knows who the main culprit in the dissemination of the images is, but did not mention their name on air.

This month, a local TV-news station in Arizona ran an unsettling report: A mother named Jennifer DeStefano says that she picked up the phone to the sound of her 15-year-old crying out for her, and was asked to pay a $1 million ransom for her daughter's return. In reality, the teen had not been kidnapped, and was safe; DeStefano believes someone used AI to create a replica of her daughter's voice to deploy against her family. "It was completely her voice," she said in one interview. It was the way she would have cried." DeStefano's story has since been picked up by other outlets, while similar stories of AI voice scams have surfaced on TikTok and been reported by The Washington Post.

For a few years, I've been trying to write a story about a cat. A.I. will not be able to write this, partly because the story is still inside my imagination and on a few rough pages that were originally drafted in Boston, on sheets of notebook paper, as I sat in my daughter's apartment on a hot summer day. If I have it published (who knows, it's a strange story), perhaps some machine will suck it into a system, break down my style, my usage, the themes I like to touch upon -- loss and despair, love and hope -- wide-ranging themes that, like all themes, arrive out of my own unique human concerns and have fueled me through six story collections. But for now, this story I haven't yet finished is inside my imagination, safe and sound, and no machine can make it or conjure it because no machine has been in my head as I wandered the streets of South Chicago, or stared at Lake Michigan from Promontory Point on the particular day I was there in June, or stopped in the parking lot of a supermarket called Treasure Island to examine a pile of snow, left over from a long winter, honeycombed and covered with dirt and grime, which is the image that closes the rough draft of my story; no machine stood with me in front of the Obama house, on the corner of 1118 Hyde Park Boulevard, and watched a Secret Service agent as he approached, another image that sparked the plot of my story, and certainly no machine was with me watching a cat named Baudelaire, my daughter's cat, as he played on a particular Chicago afternoon, in a particular moment years ago, clutching a piece of string -- yet another image that spoke to me through the retrospect of memory. No machine -- and I use that phrase because A.I. is a machine, and no matter how complicated, or even organic, its still-binary, open-and-shut gates may be -- looked through my eyes as I took the train to my hometown in Michigan, gazing out over the old steel mills of Gary, Ind., making note of images with intent, storing and twisting them in relation to the pain I felt that moment, riding back to my hometown in Michigan, to my father's interment ceremony, an experience that reminded me that I, too, will die someday, and the art I create will be all I leave behind.

Yes, you have your R2-D2, your BB-8, Data (Brent Spiner), even WALL-E. So while we still can, take notes on these robots before they become our technological overlords. Not only are the Fem-bots evil, they are Evil's evil. Dr. Evil's (Mike Myers), to be precise. Attractive and seductive, the Fem-bots were a means of distracting, and killing, Austin Powers (Mike Myers), not only with their agility but with their "machine gun jubblies," guns protruding from their breasts.

Ice Child the Daughter of Lilith is a piece of digital artwork by Lilith Seven which was uploaded on March 27th, 2022. The digital art may be purchased as wall art, home decor, apparel, phone cases, greeting cards, and more. All products are produced on-demand and shipped worldwide within 2 - 3 business days.

I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Would you want to be told you're dying over a video screen attached to a robot? A 78-year-old California man received news of his demise in exactly that fashion, the BBC reports. A robotic unit used to conduct telemedicine visits came into Ernest Quintana's hospital room, where he was with his granddaughter and a friend of his daughter's, and a doctor on its video screen (sitting at an unknown remote location) reportedly told him that his lungs were irrevocably damaged and he would soon die. Quintana passed away the following day.

I am finally living the life that futurists promise will bring me the happiness and balance I crave. The autonomous car has freed me from the slog of commuting. Rather than driving, I am using my time productively, for I am always connected, always working. Actually, I am squatting in my Subaru with a laptop, reclined against a nursing pillow, hoping no one calls the cops. And I'm not sure whether this experiment is a fantasy or a nightmare.

It's Friday afternoon and, while leaving office, you receive a weather alert on your mobile from your favorite retailer -- a thunderstorm will be in your area in about three hours. Your daughter's birthday is tomorrow and you need to buy few items on your way home. Lucky for you, the retailer has a cognitive agent in its app so you can check to see if you can order your daughter's gift online using the app. You ask the cognitive agent "What I should buy for a 5-year-old girl's birthday?" The agent gives you various options as well as new fashion trends in girls' clothing and provides the popularity of these products.