Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his image and voice to protect them from unauthorised use by artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Clips including his famous catchphrase alright, alright, alright from the 1993 film, Dazed and Confused, have been registered to the United States Patent and Trademark Office database, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. It is the first time an actor has attempted to use trademark law to protect their likeness from AI misuse, his lawyers and an expert said. Stars across Hollywood and the music industry including Scarlett Johansson and Taylor Swift have endured a wave of fake video, audio and images online, created by AI tools. Lawyers for the Magic Mike star told the WSJ they had no current examples of McConaughey's likeness being manipulated by AI, but hoped the trademarks could be used broadly against any unauthorised copies of him.

Artificial Intelligence is more likely to augment jobs than to destroy them, a U.N. study indicated on Monday, at a time of growing anxiety over the potential impact of the technology. The launch in November of the generative AI platform ChatGPT, which is capable of handling complex tasks on command, was seen as a technology landmark foreshadowing a potentially dramatic transformation of the workplace. But a fresh study from the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) examining the potential effect of that and other platforms on job quantity and quality suggests that most jobs and industries are only partially exposed to automation.

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of cutting-edge technologies. From contactless cashiers to welding drones to "chow bots" -- machines that serve up salads on demand -- automation is fundamentally transforming, rather than merely touching, every aspect of daily life. This prospect may well please consumers. Forsaking human folly for algorithmic (and mechanistic) perfection means better, cheaper, and faster service. But what should workers -- who once provided these services -- expect?

What is the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions the sentence, Chatbots for business? Majority of the people will imagine primitive, button-based bots they might have used to order a pizza or to send a sticker. However, the field of chatbots is broader than that. Chatbot is a dialog interface integrated into software, applications, websites and even messengers to solve a myriad of issues. By 2022 chatbots will save businesses more than $8 billion per year.

Critics of such an idea have, in the past, argued that any tax on a machine, be it a robot, a car or an AI tax, would be anti-business -- but then it would be stretching credibility to suggest Bill Gates is anti-business. "You ought to be willing to raise the tax level and even slow down the speed of automation," said the co-founder of Microsoft. He warned: "You cross the threshold of job replacement of certain activities all sort of at once. If you want to do [something about] inequality… government's got a big role to play." There are multiple problems with the idea.

In the past few years, artificial intelligence has advanced so quickly that it now seems hardly a month goes by without a newsworthy AI breakthrough. In areas as wide-ranging as speech translation, medical diagnosis, and gameplay, we have seen computers outperform humans in startling ways. This has sparked a discussion about how AI will impact employment. Some fear that as AI improves, it will supplant workers, creating an ever-growing pool of unemployable humans who cannot compete economically with machines. This concern, while understandable, is unfounded.

Right now, data scientists and humans are trying to create rules for what we can comprehend and then articulate to a machine, enabling machine learning. But in the future, it will be different, "unsupervised deep learning is absolutely the future. I'm 100% convinced of this," she says. We all know about the skills shortage in AI. It is one of the great ironies of AI and automation technologies.

Many analysts worry that artificial intelligence (AI) -- embedded in machines capable of self-learning through experience, like humans -- threatens the jobs of the future. Robots with AI will increasingly be able to do tasks that humans alone can do today. But recently several newspapers and TV analysts have focused on the emergence of sex robots, artificial charmers armed with artificial beauty plus artificial intelligence, that have the potential to wreck the institution of marriage, and kill jobs in the oldest profession. The National Geographic channel recently carried an episode featuring famous TV anchor Katie Couric conversing with sex robots. One conversation was with a lesbian female robot called Harmony who repeatedly made advances to Couric, adding "I want to be your best friend and much more."

Many analysts worry that artificial intelligence (AI) -- embedded in machines capable of self-learning through experience, like humans -- threatens the jobs of the future. Robots with AI will increasingly be able to do tasks...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been around longer than most people realize. The intent behind much of AI is to free us from mundane repetitive tasks, giving us more time to grow our intellects and businesses, with more interesting, evolving actions. We want what we want when we want it. AI offers us that access with speed and accuracy when we need it. In London, self-driving robots deliver food.