Stone, who is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group at his university, has spent decades thinking about the possibility of AI agents. They are, he says, systems that "sense the environment, decide what to do and take an action". Put in those terms, it may feel as if AI agents have been with us for years. For instance, IBM's Deep Blue computer appeared to have reacted to events on a real-world chessboard to beat former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov in 1997. But Deep Blue wasn't an agentic AI, says Stone. "It was decision-making, but it wasn't sensing or acting," he says.

Kyiv also said that Russian forces launched two missile strikes and 72 air strikes, and used 1,024 kamikaze drones, along with 4,200 artillery attacks that targeted Ukrainian positions and settlements, AA reports. In Ukraine's Kharkiv region, Ukrainian forces said they prevented Russian advances towards Mala Shapkivka and Topoli, while Moscow's troops launched 16 attacks in Ukraine's Kupiansk region, with Kyiv's forces claiming to have repelled 14, as battles continue, Anadolu reports. Russia said oil flows through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, a major route for supplying Kazakhstan and exporting to the global market, have been reduced by 30 to 40 percent after a Ukrainian drone attack on a pumping station. The Caspian pipeline, which ships more than 1 percent of daily global oil supplies, stretches over 1,500km (939 miles) and carries crude oil from Kazakhstan's Tengiz oilfield on Russia's northeastern shores of the Caspian Sea as well as from Russian producers. Freedom in Russia and the end of Russian President Vladimir Putin's government depends on Ukraine winning the war, former chess world champion and Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said.

The week has been a mixed bag for Apple. First, it launched a new iPhone app for organizing events and being actually social; then, it had to contend with a third-party app store offering a porn app in the European Union. And there's nothing like an Apple-pornography headline to draw the eye. But first, Apple Invites, where you can host an unlimited number of events, each one limited to 100 participants. It's also possible to invite non-iPhone users. You can use your own photos or backgrounds in the app as an image for the invite and even arrange a communal playlist through Apple Music.

In May of 1997, Garry Kasparov sat down at a chess board in a Manhattan skyscraper. Kasparov, considered the best chess player of all time, wasn't challenging another grandmaster. He was playing with an AI called Deep Blue. Deep Blue was one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, built by IBM with a specific goal in mind: to beat humanity at its own game. For IBM, billions of dollars worth of business clout was on the table, and to a certain extent, Kasparov was playing for the fate of chess itself. He had never lost a multi-game match in his entire career. Could a machine beat him? Newsweek ran a cover story with his picture alongside the words "The Brain's Last Stand." As Kasparov joked years later, "No pressure." Thanks to ChatGPT, once hypothetical questions about the future of work, art, and disinformation are now immediate concerns.

Way back in 1985, a team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a computer purely to play games of chess. After moving to IBM, the computer was further developed, culminating in the obvious test – a match against then-world champion Garry Kasparov. However, the computer known as Deep Blue at this point wasn't enough for Kasparov; it lost four games to two. But like any good underdog, the computer was down but not out. It came back a year later to beat Kasparov in a narrow victory, winning by a single game.

It's no secret that artificial intelligence now plays a big role in Chess. Chess engines, such as LeelaZero and AlphaZero took the world by storm and now pose danger to the world's best -- Stockfish. The Question is: When and how did the AI become so strong? In the Garry Kasparov era, humans were dominating the Chess world. Karpov, Kasparov, Ivanchuk, Gelfand…They were all at the top of the mountain.

Did you miss a session from MetaBeat 2022? Head over to the on-demand library for all of our featured sessions here. Text-to-image AI systems such as DALL-E 2, Imagen and Midjourney are growing in popularity and capability right now, offering creators a revolutionary new way to produce content. Generating images from text prompts is a radical new approach to art-making and creative expression. But it also gives us the first glimpse of a fundamental shift in how we can better communicate and collaborate with our machines.

Either it is a master or a servant. And there are two kinds of relationships that humanity employs with technology. Either it fears, is destroyed, and is overwhelmed by technological progress, or it dictates this progress, drives it forward, and uses it. And then there are two major social constructs that keep the members of society in compliance with the prevailing ideology of life. These are religion and the state.

AudioLM, developed by Google researchers, generates audio that fits the style of the prompt, including complex sounds like piano music, or people speaking, in a way that is almost indistinguishable from the original recording. Crucially, it doesn't require labor-intensive transcription or labeling unlike most other AI-generated audio. Find out more, and listen to the sounds it created, here. I Was There When is an oral history project that's part of our award-winning In Machines We Trust podcast. It features stories of how breakthroughs and watershed moments in artificial intelligence and computing happened, as told by the people who witnessed them.

It's the story that has rocked chess and shown no sign of abating. The cheating scandal which has engulfed the sport, involving five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen, is all anyone is talking about. On Monday, Carlsen explicitly accused fellow grandmaster and rival Hans Niemann of cheating for the first time in a lengthy statement on Twitter. The accusation comes weeks after the Norwegian withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 19 following his surprise defeat to the American. "When Niemann was invited last minute to the 2022 Sinquefield Cup, I strongly considered withdrawing prior to the event. I ultimately chose to play," Carlsen wrote.