As the world turned digital, people were quick to drop their Sunday papers and pick up their smartphones for news. Advertisers followed suit as digital platforms became more valuable real estate than print newspapers, leaving California news outlets desperate to find ways to stay profitable and relevant. News outlets must spend at least 70% of the received funds on their staff. A second bill being considered by California lawmakers, Senate Bill 1327, would charge Amazon, Meta and Google a "data extraction mitigation fee" for data they collect from users. The funds would go toward supporting local newsrooms.

When politicians, tech executives, and researchers gathered in the UK last week to discuss the risks of artificial intelligence, one prominent worry was that algorithms might someday turn against their human masters. More quietly, the group made progress on controlling the use of AI for military ends. On November 1, at the US embassy in London, US vice president Kamala Harris announced a range of AI initiatives, and her warnings about the threat AI poses to human rights and democratic values got people's attention. But she also revealed a declaration signed by 31 nations to set guardrails around military use of AI. It pledges signatories to use legal reviews and training to ensure military AI stays within international laws, develop the technology cautiously and transparently, avoid unintended biases in systems that use AI, and continue to discuss how the technology can be developed and deployed responsibly.

He has been heavily involved in radiology informatics and has seen up close the evolution of radiology toward deeper integration with artificial intelligence (AI). Kahn explains there is a lot of work involved to integrate AI into radiology systems. He also said the role of AI is becoming more important as the U.S. faces a growing shortage of radiologists, and the technology can help augment radiologists to do more and improve patient care. "Every time someone comes in and asks to install an AI application in the radiology department, it means someone has to get the legal agreements and all the contracting done, but then you have to connect it in with your systems," Kahn said. This includes connecting it, ideally, within the EMR, PACS and other systems used by radiology.

Deployed on a scale never seen before to carry out both surveillance and strikes, drones ranging from small commercially-available models to larger aircraft have become a defining feature of the Ukraine conflict. Drones have been a part of warfare for years, employed extensively by the United States during the "War on Terror," and they have played important roles in conflicts including in Iraq and in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. But the degree to which they are being used by both sides in Ukraine -- and the benefits they bring, as well as the threats they pose -- highlights the importance for militaries to be ready to employ and to counter drones in future conflicts. "The size and the scale of drone use in Ukraine supersedes all the previous conflicts," said Samuel Bendett, a researcher in uncrewed military systems who is an analyst with the CNA Russia Studies Program. Bendett stressed the "absolutely unprecedented use of commercial-type drones" for both surveillance and combat in Ukraine, and said the war has shown that "small... tactical drones are absolutely essential -- at every unit, every platoon level, every company level."

"AI algorithms have made it through the FDA approval process, and people are now looking at and trying to figure out how to build them into their clinical practice and what the economics of it are, what makes these worth while and what adds value," Kahn explained. "One of the challenges is, what do you want these things to do? What role do they fill?" While more than 300 AI algorithms are now cleared by the FDA, and a large number of these are in radiology, radiologists need to determine what is useful to their practice. "For things in radiology, it has to improve the productively of the radiologist," Kahn said.

In 1950, the ingenious computer scientist Alan Turing proposed a thought experiment he called the Imitation Game. An interviewer converses via typewriter with two subjects, knowing one is human and the other a machine. If a machine could consistently fool the interviewer into believing it was the human, Turing suggested, we might speak of it as capable of something like thinking. Whether machines could actually think, Turing believed, was a question "too meaningless to deserve discussion." Nonetheless, the "Turing test" became a benchmark for machine intelligence.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. CES 2021 will be a virtual event this year as the latest in tech vies for attention, while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic impacting the globe. "Masks of all kinds, voice assistants mature, 5G will power everything, more 8K TV sets, [and] robots…for more practical purposes," Greg Kahn, CEO GK Digital Ventures and the Internet of Things Consortium, told Fox News. Fox News has compiled a list of some of the technology that could be front and center virtually starting Jan. 11.

Ever since the movement surrounding value-based healthcare started, radiologists have understood the potential of showing their contribution in patient care, from disease prediction to follow-up. These are figures from the 4G age. GSMA has published a new report on the'Future of Devices in the age of 5G networks' in January 2020, and it identifies China as the place in which this next mobile revolution will adopt quickest. Nearly 50% of Chinese consumers say they will get a 5G phone as soon as the service is available, compared to 30% in the US and between 15-20% in Europe. Taking a look at this closer, the GSMA survey shows that, for mobile phone customers, 5G is all about speed and coverage.

Now that artificial intelligence (AI) has clawed its way into the mainstream, some vendors want us to forget it is there. What really matters, they say, is the end result. Knowing that AI is the reason for the conclusions is a needless distraction, they say. But being distracted may be better in the long run than not being able to judge the validity of the underlying process. If radiologists want to secure a future as key opinion leaders (KOL), they need to take control of AI now.

The British startup Exscientia claims it has developed the first medication created using artificial intelligence that will be clinically tested on humans. The medication, which is meant to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, took less than a year from conception to trial-ready capsule. Human trials are set to begin in March, but would you take a drug designed using artificially intelligent software? The appeal of AI-designed drugs is relatively straightforward. There are lots and lots of possible molecules that might be useful in medications, far too many for all the medical researchers in the world to manually test.