Tech entrepreneur Yossi Tsuria wanted to find out. He asked the AI chatbot to generate a prayer. If Joe was praying for his son's health, Mr. Tsuria asked in 2023, how should he pray? The machine responded, "Heavenly Father, In this trying time, I come before you with a heavy heart." Could your next spiritual guide be artificial intelligence?

What if every student could use artificial intelligence to do any form of writing for their classes? A recent technology called GPT-3, a machine-learning model that understands and generates natural language text, is attempting to make this a reality. Created by an artificial intelligence company called OpenAI, GPT-3, formally known as Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is trained to recognize 540 billion words and 175 billion parameters, which are the variables that allow AI models to make predictions. The training enables the technology to produce human-like text for several types of writing, including outlines, long-form essays, sales pitches, and poems. But how well does it work?

Greg Kruger pauses for what seems like an eternity during his presentation, but it actually just lasts six seconds. The senior agronomist for BASF's xarvio digital farming division did it to prove a point about BASF's Smart Farming joint collaboration with Bosch that includes precision spraying technology the firms call Smart Spraying. The strategy teams machine-learning algorithms with computer vision to enable "green-on-green" spraying that distinguishes between weeds and crops in-season. Kruger's presentation was part of a BASF media briefing held before this week's Commodity Classic in New Orleans. "In the six seconds that I paused, we've taken 1,000 images [with Smart Spraying] on the boom," says Kruger.

Difficult co-workers who defy authority are more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Texas discovered the correlation after studying the records of police officers, financial advisers, white-collar criminals and senior executives who used the Ashley Madison marital infidelity website. The data suggests a strong connection between people's actions in their personal and professional lives. They found that Ashley Madison were more than twice as likely to engage in corporate misconduct. Researchers investigated four study groups totalling 11,235 individuals.

On the floor of CES, LG's CLOi service robots got a lot of attention. But just across the parking lot from the Las Vegas Convention Center, two service robots--both Relay robots from San Jose-based Savioke--are quietly at work. These robots, tagged Elvis and Priscilla, are full-time employees of the Renaissance Hotel, and they aren't getting a lot of attention. When Priscilla navigated through the crowded lobby to make a delivery on Wednesday, only a few people pulled out cameras. Others casually brushed by, sometimes giving it a little pat as they passed.