EXCLUSIVE - Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman expressed optimism for the country following President-elect Donald Trump's historic victory, saying it felt like a cloud had been lifted. I feel great, in fact," Bateman told Fox News Digital in an interview. "I feel like there was this kind of suffocating cloud that was kind of over us… Regular people who had questions about decisions that were being made were threatened subtly or obviously into silence. And I feel like that's been broken, that sort of suppression has been kind of broken." Bateman, best known for playing Mallory Keaton on the hit 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," recently went viral for referring to the last four years as being "a very un-American period" for free expression and that only "permitted positions" were accepted by the powers that be. "My belief is that everyone should be free to live their life exactly how they want to live it.

That's because machine-learning algorithms need both brain signals and information about what they correspond to, paired in perfect synchrony, to learn what the signals mean. When studying inner experience, all scientists have to go on is what people say is going on inside their head, and that can be reliable. "It's not like it's directly measuring as a ground truth what people experienced," says Raphaël Millière, a lecturer in philosophy at Macquarie University in Australia. Tying brain activity to subjective experience requires facing up to the slipperiness and inexactitude of language, particularly when deployed to capture the richness of one's inner life. In order to meet that demanding brief, scientists like Millière are marrying contemporary artificial intelligence with centuries-old techniques, from philosophical interview strategies to ancient meditation practices.

Chinese tech giant Baidu has rolled out its ChatGPT-like ERNIE Bot to the public. But the app is highly censored, offering state-approved answers to taboo questions and sometimes refusing to process them altogether when tested. Here are some of ERNIE's answers to questions about sensitive topics in China: Asked about the status of Taiwan, a self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own, ERNIE said that it is "not a country."

The artificial intelligence revolution is motoring forward at such a pace that it's hard to keep up with the torrent of news stories about it, let alone the technology itself. In recent weeks we've had AI newsreaders on Kuwaiti TV, an AI-generated photograph winning a major prize, an AI-generated interview with Michael Schumacher that got an editor sacked and, of course, numerous warnings that this all might spell the end of humanity itself. It's natural to feel apprehensive about these society-shaking developments. Even so, the reaction to a recent interview in which Joe Russo speculated on the future of AI-generated film seemed particularly intense. Russo – one half of Marvel-affiliated director duo the Russo brothers – was musing on how generative AI could invent a film catered to the whims of the viewer.

When OpenAI, the San Francisco company developing artificial intelligence tools, announced the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, former Facebook and Oculus employee Daniel Habib moved quickly. Within four days of ChatGPT's launch, Habib used the chatbot to build QuickVid AI, which automates much of the creative process involved in generating ideas for YouTube videos. Creators input details about the topic of their video and what kind of category they'd like it to sit in, then QuickVid interrogates ChatGPT to create a script. Other generative AI tools then voice the script and create visuals. Tens of thousands of users used it daily--but Habib had been using unofficial access points to ChatGPT, which limited how much he could promote the service and meant he couldn't officially charge for it.

As was perhaps inevitable, ChatGPT--the free chatbot created by OpenAI that has been ruffling feathers ever since it was launched in November--has now spawned "a boom in AI-written e-books on Amazon," according to Greg Bensinger at Reuters. Bensinger counted over 200 e-books in Amazon's Kindle store that listed ChatGPT as author or co-author, which isn't counting the books that were created using the software without acknowledgement (an unknowable, perhaps infinite number). Would-be author Brett Schickler told Reuters that after he learned about ChatGPT--which can instantly generate cogent blocks of text from any prompt--he "figured an opportunity had landed in his lap." "The idea of writing a book finally seemed possible," he explained. "I thought'I can do this.'"

As a professor and someone who values academic integrity, I am always concerned about the issue of plagiarism. Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's work or ideas as your own, without proper attribution or citation. It is a serious offense in the academic world, as it undermines the fundamental principle of intellectual honesty and undermines the integrity of the research and scholarship that is being produced. Recently, there has been some concern about the use of AI language models, such as ChatGPT, in the context of plagiarism. ChatGPT is a powerful tool that can generate human-like text, and it has been used for a variety of purposes, including generating chatbot responses and creating content for websites and social media.

A Google AI engineer recently stunned the world by announcing that one of the company's chatbots had become sentient. He was subsequently placed on paid administrative leave for his outburst. His name is Blake Lemoine and he sure seems like the right person to talk about machines with souls. Not only is he a professional AI developer at Google, but he's also a Christian priest. The only problem is that the whole concept is ridiculous and dangerous.

Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian's brand new gaming newsletter. If you'd like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below – and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email. Well done everyone, we made it through to 2022. Has anyone else's brain lost the ability to distinguish between "holiday at home with the kids" and "lockdown at home with the kids"? After 14 days'off' I am very ready to be somewhere completely silent, and perhaps be able to play a video game for longer than 20 minutes without either being asked for a snack, or falling asleep.

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