Ever since reading Tim Urban's epic blog posts on artificial intelligence years ago I have keept a healthy interest in (and fear of) AI. This weekend OpenAI released version 3.5 of their Chat GPT AI. If you have been on Twitter the past few days you've seen it. If not, you need to. The tool is a bit of software that allows you to ask questions or give commands and get responses from the computer that are extremely human-like and impressive.

Even pop legends are not immune to the ongoing digitization of every aspect of life and society. Recently it was announced that Abba fans would get to experience the Swedish supergroup in their prime, as their "Abba-tars" take to the stage in London next year. The quartet spent five weeks with A/V wizards at Industrial Light and Magic, who have used advanced motion capture techniques to create virtual copies of the band that behave accurately in every way, from their dancing to their eye movements. Artificial intelligence (AI) routines were then used to "de-age" the performers, similarly to how it has been done in movies such as Star Wars and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman. Recently we have heard a lot about the metaverse – the concept of a persistent, digital reality where we can share experiences or work collaboratively within virtual environments.

Many artificial intelligence systems rely on neural networks, but they don't work in the same way that human and animal brains do. Intel has been working with computers that think like a brain for years, and their Loihi neuromorphic technology has produced some spectacular, if strange, results. Loihi is having its first update right now, and it's a huge one.

Clara Lu is the marketing manager at ViSenze, an artificial intelligence company that makes search by images possible without keywords. With so many articles proliferating the media space on how humans are at the cusp of full AI (artificial intelligence), it's no wonder that we believe that the future -- which is full of robots and drones and self-driven vehicles, as well as diminishing human control over these machines -- is right on our doorstep. But are we really approaching the singularity as fast as we think we are? It's not hard to have that impression with the likes of Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, leading university departments and research centers around the world and more being highly concerned with the potential risks brought about by AI and taking action now to avoid a doomsday scenario in the near future. They predict that by the year 2030 machines will develop consciousness through the application of human intelligence. In fact, Dr. Hawking told the BBC, "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

Lee called the pilot ""the most aggressive, responsive, dynamic and credible AI I've seen to date," according to a release from the University of Cincinnati. The AI pilot is called ALPHA, and it is the work of Nick Ernest, who co-founded the company Psibernetix, to further develop and market the device. This AI is superior to every other Lee has ever flown against, he said. Normally, "an experienced pilot can beat up on [the AI] if you know what you're doing. Sure, you might have gotten shot down once in a while by an AI program when you, as a pilot, were trying something new, but, until now, an AI opponent simply could not keep up with anything like the real pressure and pace of combat-like scenarios."