In November 2022, ChatGPT took the world by storm, demonstrating that a chatbot could be sufficiently refined to be practical and useful (unlike earlier attempts like Microsoft's disastrous Tay chatbot back in 2016). Now, after just two short years, generative AI technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, progressing quickly from simple text and image generation tools to advanced multimodal models that produce highly competent outputs across text, images, video, audio, and code. Generative AI is not just generating content and art and code, however. It also is generating tons of problems for business and society, especially when it comes to figuring out who owns the outputs produced by these systems. After all, individuals and companies are increasingly using generative AI to generate sophisticated, commercially valuable outputs.

AIs that can work out how to hack self driving cars and other vehicles to turn them into killers are coming - and sooner than many people think, a leading expert has warned. 'Such attacks, which seem like science fiction today, might become reality in the next few years,' Guy Caspi, CEO of cybersecurity start-up Deep Instinct, told CNBC's podcast'Beyond the Valley.' It raises fears that self driving cars and other technologies could be hacked, turning them into makeshift battle weapons. Security expert Guy Caspi claims the technology needed for killer vehicles already exists in self driving cars from firms like Alphabet's Waymo. Caspi says much of the technology needed for killer vehicles already exists.

Thousands of the top names in tech have come together to take a stand against the development of killer robots. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who has long been outspoken about the dangers of AI, joined the founders of Google DeepMind, the XPrize Foundation, and over 2,500 individuals and companies in signing a pledge this week condemning lethal autonomous weapons. The industry experts vowed to'neither participate in nor support' the use of such weapons, arguing that'the decision to take a human life should never be delegated to a machine.' The move comes amid growing fears of AI systems that could target and kill a person without a human at the reins to make the final judgement call. 'There is an urgent opportunity and necessity for citizens, policymakers, and leaders to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable uses of AI,' industry experts argue in the pledge, which was released on Wednesday at the 2018 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Stockholm.