DER SPIEGEL: This is not a problem that is exclusive to today's tech industry. Acemoglu: The tech industry combines it with our current obsession with autonomous machine intelligence, meaning that what we should aspire for is to have machines that are as human-like as possible. This vision is rooted in the work and thoughts of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician who first articulated the Turing Test. That's the benchmark that all AI engineers want to pass. DER SPIEGEL: The test is, roughly speaking, about whether a computer succeeds in deceiving a human to think that it is speaking with another person and not a computer.

Sign up to receive the Future Tense newsletter. I've been thinking a lot about how crows talk. I've been intrigued by this idea ever since I heard Annalee Newitz explain the research they did for "When Robot and Crow Saved East St. Louis," a Future Tense Fiction story published in 2018. Crows are a central part of the story, and they help a disease-detecting robot (once property of the story's now-defunct CDC) track an outbreak and transfer samples to a community vaccine developer.

A rendering of Tesla's humanoid, known as Tesla Bot or Optimus. As I write this, we are all eagerly and skeptically awaiting Elon Musk's update on Tesla's new Optimus robot. Musk said he will unveil a prototype of Optimus at Tesla's AI Day on Friday. Let's be frank, Optimus feels a bit dystopian, as if we're all going to be eminently replaced by a sleek, slender, cold electronic robot. It feels like Optimus inhabits a world of beautiful black and white design, while the rest of us get to drive around in stainless-steel Cybertrucks overseeing our hole-drilling operations on Mars.

The Ghost manages a number of online galleries.The Ghost specialise in Dark Conceptual AI art.The motifs include; Dark Art, Dark Portrait, Dark Fantasy, Dystopian, Punk, Artificial Intelligence,Death, Decay, Gender, Lilith, Ice Children .Artwork is dedicated to Lilith and the Ice Children. All works were created by Martin Wall. The Ghost manages a number of online galleries.The Ghost specialise in Dark Conceptual AI art.The motifs include; Dark Art, Dark Portrait, Dark Fantasy, Dystopian, Punk, Artificial Intelligence,Death, Decay, Gender, Lilith, Ice Children .Artwork is dedicated to Lilith and the Ice Children. All works were created by Martin Wall.

A version of this article was published in TIME's newsletter Into the Metaverse. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. Technology and fiction have long shared a symbiotic relationship. Just as writers dreamed up fantastical worlds based on imagined technologies, those same worlds have inspired engineers, technologists, and scientists--spurring breakthroughs as well as thorny philosophical questions about their work. The term "metaverse" itself comes from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash; the comic strip Dick Tracy inspired the cell phone.

Hyundai has already showed off some practical robotics concepts last month in the lead-up to the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show. Now the South Korean automaker is going full galaxy brain with the introduction of a new "Mobility of Things" concept that it claims will power a whole slew of objects, from household plants and book shelves, to ambulances and autonomous passenger pods. The spectrum of things that can be roboticized (for lack of a better term) is "unlimited," said Dong Jin Hyun, vice president and head of Robotics Lab of Hyundai Motor Group, in a statement. "The goal is for robotics to enable all kinds of personal mobility, connected to communicate, move and perform tasks autonomously." Hyundai says it is developing two different standards: a modular platform called "Plug and Drive" (PnD) that combines steering, electric drive, and suspension hardware; and "Drive and Lift" (DnL) that can lift objects up and down.

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future is an unusual book. Each chapter consists of a short story, penned by science fiction writer Chen Qiufan, and a related analysis piece from Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of Sinovation Ventures and author of the nonfiction bestseller AI Superpowers. Chen, who also is founder of Thema Mundi, a content development studio, spoke with Fast Company on the eve of the release of AI 2041 about his collaboration with Lee, his own experiences with artificial intelligence, and what machine learning will mean for artists and writers. This interview was edited for length and clarity. Fast Company: How did this project come about?

Recognizing them is increasingly hard if not impossible to the untrained human eye. Overall, as most journalistic coverage of the topic tells us, deepfakes -- alongside other AI technologies, machine learning, and online neural networks in general -- are here and will serve to cast a shadow of technological terror over society. As part of media coverage on this topic, our future is deemed dystopian -- humankind has lost the battles to machines and episodes of the TV series "Black Mirror" will pale in comparison with the havoc sowed by technology. In fact, research I conducted with a colleague from the University of Haifa (Yael Oppenheim) has found that most images and narratives that journalists worldwide use to cover these technologies tend to stress destruction, loss, crisis, and fear regarding the future of humanity. From Israel to the U.S., deepfake videos are becoming a major threat to democracy'Every woman on Instagram is exposed': New AI creates nude photos of clothed women It is, however, important to contextualize this alarmist media frenzy.

Efforts furthering the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will increasingly encompass AI Legal Reasoning (AILR) as a crucial element in the practice of law. It is argued in this research paper that the infusion of AI into existing and future legal activities and the judicial structure needs to be undertaken by mindfully observing an alignment with the core principles of justice. As such, the adoption of AI has a profound twofold possibility of either usurping the principles of justice, doing so in a Dystopian manner, and yet also capable to bolster the principles of justice, doing so in a Utopian way. By examining the principles of justice across the Levels of Autonomy (LoA) of AI Legal Reasoning, the case is made that there is an ongoing tension underlying the efforts to develop and deploy AI that can demonstrably determine the impacts and sway upon each core principle of justice and the collective set.

AI-powered baby monitors are not marketed as a babysitter replacement but rather a supplement for working parents. Device-assisted child care is an almost century-old concept. The world's first electronic baby monitor, the Bakelite Zenith Radio Nurse, went on sale in the late 1930s--a response, at least in part, to the moral panic following the kidnapping and subsequent murder of the Lindbergh baby. Thus, using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist or relieve parents entirely of the burdens of nurturing is not an abrupt or unanticipated innovation--many parents already monitor their children remotely using cameras connected to their smartphones, sometimes with unanticipated and extremely creepy results--and, given the cost and difficulty of securing reliable human babysitters, it may also be an easy sell. SEE ALSO: What Happens When'Generation Voice' Grows Up? Enter Turkey-based startup Invidyo and its AI-powered "smart baby and babysitter camera."