In this regard, the public prosecutionagency cited the following evidence: capture history, ......, and statements and explanations of the defendant.

Meta just announced a major move in its AI efforts--investing in Scale AI and building a superintelligence AI research lab. While Meta has been trying to keep up with big names in the AI race, such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, the company's new strategy includes dropping some serious cash to acquire talent and invest in Scale AI. Today on the show, we dive into the deal between Meta and Scale AI, including what Meta aims to get out of investment, and we ask the question we are all wondering: What is superhuman intelligence, anyway? Write to us at uncannyvalley@wired.com. You can always listen to this week's podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here's how: If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link.

William Phelps was at work when he got the call from the FBI that he had to return home at once. It was December 2023 and his wife, Aurora Phelps, was in big trouble, something to do with a fraud scheme. About a dozen agents turned his apartment upside down looking for evidence in their case, and William Phelps wouldn't see his wife again. That is, until this week, when William came to learn the scope of the allegations against his wife. According to federal prosecutors, Aurora was the perpetrator of a deadly romance scam, connecting with older men on the internet, then drugging them and stealing from their bank accounts.

A hallmark of intelligence is the ability to flesh out underspecified situations using "common sense." We propose to extract that common sense from large language models (LLMs), in a form that can feed into probabilistic inference. We focus our investigation on $\textit{guesstimation}$ questions such as "How much are Airbnb listings in Newark, NJ?" Formulating a sensible answer without access to data requires drawing on, and integrating, bits of common knowledge about how $\texttt{Price}$ and $\texttt{Location}$ may relate to other variables, such as $\texttt{Property Type}$. Our framework answers such a question by synthesizing an $\textit{ad hoc}$ probabilistic model. First we prompt an LLM to propose a set of random variables relevant to the question, followed by moment constraints on their joint distribution. We then optimize the joint distribution $p$ within a log-linear family to maximize the overall constraint satisfaction. Our experiments show that LLMs can successfully be prompted to propose reasonable variables, and while the proposed numerical constraints can be noisy, jointly optimizing for their satisfaction reconciles them. When evaluated on probabilistic questions derived from three real-world tabular datasets, we find that our framework performs comparably to a direct prompting baseline in terms of total variation distance from the dataset distribution, and is similarly robust to noise.

The idea of a hotel room on wheels might sound like a concept from the latest science fiction blockbuster. But it could soon become a reality, if the latest concept is anything to go by. Researchers from Xoio aim to make long, boring car journeys a thing of the past with the'Swift Pod'. The futuristic concept vehicle features a large sleeping pod where two travellers can snooze as they're chauffeured on their journey. And if you're in the mood for a midnight snack, there's no need to stop off at the services - the car will even provide snacks and drinks!

Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., sits down with'FOX & Friends Weekend' to discuss Ukraine funding, Biden's border policies and attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, is warning Americans traveling to the country not to use dating apps after eight "suspicious deaths" of private U.S. citizens. According to the embassy, the deaths -- potentially involuntary drug overdoes or suspected homicides -- took place in Medellin between November 1 and December 31, 2023. "Over the last year, the Embassy has seen an increase in reports of incidents involving the use of online dating applications to lure victims, typically foreigners, for robbery by force or using sedatives to drug and rob individuals," the embassy said. The Embassy said it regularly receives reports of such incidents occurring in major cities, like Medellin, Cartagena, and Bogota.

AI has officially taken over the world. Depending on who you ask, ChatGPT and Midjourney are saviour of work, art, journalism, law and ethics – or the destroyer of them. Right now, consumer AI is in no man's land, with computer-generated art mostly showing us how Mr Blobby would fare in the Napoleonic Wars. But that hasn't stopped AI start-ups from securing big money investment, and websites using ChatGPT to create personalised content. Which got me thinking: if multi-million dollar companies can wrangle AI to lighten their workloads, why can't I? If'real' jobs will be made obsolete once the machines take over, why resist it?

The Albanese government has released its plan to revamp the safeguard mechanism – a Coalition policy that promised to reduce emissions from our biggest industrial polluters but actually resulted in the opposite. Labor has proposed a policy makeover. The government's plan will require big polluters to cut emissions by 5% a year until 2030, but will controversially allow them to continue buying carbon offsets from companies that pollute less. How the government regulates the safeguard mechanism is a big deal, given the polluting facilities included in the policy are responsible for 28% of the nation's emissions. If Australia is to meet its 43% emissions reduction target by 2030, this policy has to work.

Back in 1969 I finally caught 2001: A Space Odyssey in a Cinerama theater in Scottsdale, Arizona. At that point, the film had been running in that theater for over a year. I had longed to see it since its release in 1968 (I remember seeing it on the marquee of a theater in downtown Indianapolis), but when we visited relatives in Phoenix the following summer the opportunity finally presented itself. After the crescendo of its end, and the credits that ran to the tune of Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube," I stepped out of the theater in a fog, completely stunned. From the hype I had heard about the film I was expecting something of an ambitious, up-to-date Destination Moon.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Southern California man robbed more than 20 dates he met on a gay dating app and stabbed one victim in the chest during one robbery, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Derrick Patterson, 22, a resident of the Los Angeles suburb of Compton, was arrested Monday by the FBI. His most recent robbery occurred on March 26 at a Beverly Hills hotel, authorities said.