Although the literature of automatism has existed in one mold or another since the late Middle Ages--with sixteenth-century folktales about a golem made of clay and summoned to life, through ritual incantation, to defend Prague's Jewish community --its modern form was set in motion by a play called "R.U.R.," by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. Its 1921 première, also in Prague, set the agenda for the next century, and it has remained an apparently ironclad convention that all critical writing about the genre begin there. The drama gave us the word "robot," a derivative of an Old Slavic root related to "serfdom," and its narrative, of a rebellion among artificial workers, provided a metaphorical template--stories about robots are stories about labor and freedom. The word "robot" is still with us, and the underlying metaphor has a generous flexibility, encompassing two related but distinct ideas. One is that the first thing we would obviously do with artificial people is enslave them--as in, say, "Westworld."

Chatbots have become integral to various application domains, including those with safety-critical considerations. As a result, there is a pressing need for methods that ensure chatbots consistently adhere to expected, safe behaviours. In this paper, we introduce RV4Chatbot, a Runtime Verification framework designed to monitor deviations in chatbot behaviour. We formalise expected behaviours as interaction protocols between the user and the chatbot. We present the RV4Chatbot design and describe two implementations that instantiate it: RV4Rasa, for monitoring chatbots created with the Rasa framework, and RV4Dialogflow, for monitoring Dialogflow chatbots. Additionally, we detail experiments conducted in a factory automation scenario using both RV4Rasa and RV4Dialogflow.

What do androids really dream about? It's apparently not electric sheep, according to this surprising video of the'world's most advanced robot'. In the video, Ameca, a humanoid robot designed by Cornish startup Engineered Arts, is asked whether she dreams. Ameca's response might come as quite a shock, as she replies: 'Yeah!' Accompanied by strangely lifelike facial expressions, she continues: 'Last night I dreamed of dinosaurs fighting a space war on Mars against aliens.' However, Ameca quickly follows this up by saying: 'I'm kidding, I don't dream like humans do but I can simulate it by running through scenarios in my head which help me learn about the world.'

A new'Dream Simulator' game harnesses the power of ChatGPT to recreate people's dreams in 3D -- instantly. The PC game called Project Electric Sheep uses OpenAI's GPT-3 AI, with people typing what they dreamed about, then seeing the landscape come to life around them. A voice asks, 'What do you wish to dream about,' then the player types in their choices and the game creates the world around them in 3D in seconds. Users can move around inside their dreams using a mouse and interact and talk with the people in their dreams. Users are asked, 'What do you want to dream about?' Gadney said: 'People were stunned.

Which company is the Switzerland of AI? Why have AWS and Microsoft failed on the AI front? Who is leading in artificial intelligence? Find out with Holger Mueller, VP and principal analyst at Constellation Research. It's time to look at one of the most disruptive technologies that is just around the corner in enterprise tech: artificial intelligence (AI).

Long before the technology even existed in the real world, the concept of artificial intelligence has long been a topic of fixation for writers. From cautionary tales and science fiction epics to nonfictional explorations of the implications of AI in our modern world, artificial intelligence seems to be an endlessly fascinating subject of books both big and small. As such, there are all kinds of truly exceptional books about artificial intelligence out there for you to read, enjoy, and maybe even learn a thing or two from. As to be expected, these books about artificial intelligence truly run the gamut. Beyond simply falling under both fiction and nonfiction, artificial intelligence books cover topics ranging from the future to the past, from work to society, from computing to critiques… and all sorts of other topics along the way.

In 2020, the American poet Andrew Brown gave a student the following assignment: write a poem from the point of view of a cloud looking down on two warring cities. "I think I'll start to rain, Because I don't think I can stand the pain, Well, Brown's'student' turned out to be a computer program, not a human. The program, called GPT-3, is one of the most powerful AI language models ever made. Created in 2020 by the research firm OpenAI, its development has cost tens of millions of dollars. Trained on 200 billion words from books, articles, and websites, GPT-3 can generate fluent streams of text on any topic you can imagine. Companies like Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, and LinkedIn feed our personal preferences into them to create targeted recommendations.

For decades, ethicists, philosophers and science fiction writers have wrestled with what seems increasingly like an inevitability in the evolution of humankind's technological discovery: The creation of a new species of artificial humanity. Enter stage right: The eerily realistic interactive CGI avatar, Neon. It's the literal brainchild of Samsung-funded Star Labs' Pranav Mistry, who also serves as CEO of the company he says is building "the first computerized artificial human." "Neon is like a new kind of life," Mistry said when unveiling the technology this week at CES. "There are millions of species on our planet, and we hope to add one more." Read more: Neon's CEO explains artificial humans to me and I'm more confused than ever And it's hard to see, just now, whether Neon will live up to the terrifying promises of its creator, or whether it will ultimately be proven to be a glorified chatbot with a bit more nuance than the notoriously creepy AI news anchor revealed in 2018.

Rutger Hauer, the Dutch actor who portrayed Roy Batty in the film Blade Runner, passed away recently. To celebrate his iconic role, we are revisiting this piece on the Voight-Kampff test, a device to detect if a person is really human. Is Rick Deckard a replicant, an advanced bioengineered being? The jury concerning the character in 1982's Blade Runner is still out. Harrison Ford, who plays Deckard in the film, thinks he's human.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is the book behind the great Sci-Fi movie Blade Runner. But the book is stimulating, thought provoking and entertaining is so many other ways. The movies are great for the visuals, but the book paints visuals in your mind that no movie creator could do justice to. Imagine a grim post war world where almost all creators on earth have been destroyed, and humans are just hardly even hanging on, forcing migrations in Elon-Muskish-migrations to Mars and any other piece of rock in space that can generate resources for use by humanity. Imagine a world where the only pleasures on earth are simulated.