Humanity is at a crossroads that might be summed up as AI for good v AI gone bad, according to a leading artificial intelligence expert. "I see two futures here," the author Prof Gary Marcus told the UN's AI for Good global summit on Friday. In the rosier version, AI revolutionises medicine, helps tackle the climate emergency and delivers compassionate care to elderly people. But we could be on the precipice of a bleaker alternative, with out-of-control cybercrime, devastating conflict and a descent into anarchy. "I'm not saying what's coming; I'm saying we need to figure out what we're doing," Marcus told the summit.

University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton, often called the " Godfather of AI" for his pioneering research on neural networks, recently became the industry's unofficial watchdog. He quit working at Google this spring to more freely critique the field he helped pioneer. He saw the recent surge in generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bing Chat as signs of unchecked and potentially dangerous acceleration in development. Google, meanwhile, was seemingly giving up its previous restraint as it chased competitors with products like its Bard chatbot. At this week's Collision conference in Toronto, Hinton expanded his concerns.

For the past few days, I've been playing around with DALL-E 2, an app developed by the San Francisco company OpenAI that turns text descriptions into hyper-realistic images. OpenAI invited me to test DALL-E 2 (the name is a play on Pixar's WALL-E and artist Salvador Dalí) during its beta period, and I quickly got obsessed. I spent hours thinking up weird, funny and abstract prompts to feed the AI -- "a 3D rendering of a suburban home shaped like a croissant," "an 1850s daguerreotype portrait of Kermit the Frog," "a charcoal sketch of two penguins drinking wine in a Parisian bistro." This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.

To this day, one of the most dangerous weapons on Earth is a box of matches. The problem is that AI is perfectly capable of being a superweapon and nobody's looking at slamming on the brakes. There was a rather gruesome article in VOX in March this year which spelled out some of the risks. AI could discover both super-drugs and super-weapons. The same applies to bioweapons and similar "learnable" threats.

In the past few months, there has been a suite of new artificial intelligence products that go far beyond what has been made available to the public before. Last week, the high-profile suspension of a Google employee after he went public about an AI chat bot that he thought was (almost certainly incorrectly) sentient put a spotlight on just how far AI has come. One major advancement has been the new AI model Generative Pre-trained Transformer-3 (GPT-3) by research firm OpenAI, released in 2020. Since its initial release, OpenAI has slowly rolled out access to the model for various uses -- carefully allowing access to it due to fear of the powerful technology being misused. Just how powerful is this technology? Rather than telling you, why don't we get the AI to tell you?

In the past few months, there has been a suite of new artificial intelligence products that go far beyond what has been made available to the public before. Last week, the high-profile suspension of a Google employee after he went public about an AI chat bot that he thought was (almost certainly incorrectly) sentient put a spotlight on just how far AI has come. One major advancement has been the new AI model Generative Pre-trained Transformer-3 (GPT-3) by research firm OpenAI, released in 2020. Since its initial release, OpenAI has slowly rolled out access to the model for various uses -- carefully allowing access to it due to fear of the powerful technology being misused. Just how powerful is this technology?

At The Good AI, we strongly believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be inclusive and celebrate diversity. However, AI is also the reflector of its creators and this translates into the reproduction of certain biases into AI products related to race, gender or sexual orientation among others. The following article from the MIT Technology Review explains how. In the light of this, the tech industry has an important responsibility towards society, and the death of George Floyd at the hands of a city police officer in Minneapolis, USA on 25 May 2020, -one in a long series of racists attacks against African Americans -, should urge us to take action. We need to make sure we are not perpetuating and letting racism or any other kind of discrimination take roots in our AI systems.

Modern games have advanced in multiple ways over the past decades. Technologies such as physical based rendering or adaptive tessellation have been deployed to great effect and help make modern games look amazing. As awesome as this may be is one more concealed yet even more important piece of technology that seems to feature less, something that used to sit as a crown jewel at the back of the box of any would-be high-quality video game. Of course, we are referring to video game artificial intelligence, or AI for short. But what is artificial intelligence? How do we know whether it is good or not?

At The Good AI, we strongly believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be inclusive and celebrate diversity. However, AI is also the reflector of its creators and this translates into the reproduction of certain biases into AI products related to race, gender or sexual orientation among others. The following article from the MIT Technology Review explains how. In the light of this, the tech industry has an important responsibility towards society, and the death of George Floyd at the hands of a city police officer in Minneapolis, USA on 25 May 2020, -one in a long series of racists attacks against African Americans -, should urge us to take action. We need to make sure we are not perpetuating and letting racism or any other kind of discrimination take roots in our AI systems.

An effective artificial intelligence strategy uses the right tools to solve the right problems, an analyst says. Dean Lacheca, Senior Director Analyst for Gartner, told delegates at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo in the Gold Coast on Monday that they need to stop seeing AI as a futuristic piece of technology. "AI, in reality, is more than just a tool. It's a whole range of tools with different variations in complexities, costs of ownerships, consequences and opportunities," he said. A good strategy allows organisations to manage risks, address and mitigate concerns and accelerate the role of AI within an organisation, Mr Lacheca says.