A New York lawyer could face discipline after it was discovered a case she cited was generated by artificial intelligence and did not actually exist. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered lawyer Jae Lee to its grievance panel last week after discovering she used OpenAI's ChatGPT to research prior cases for a medical malpractice lawsuit but failed to confirm whether the case she was citing actually existed, according to a report from Reuters. The attorney included the fictitious state court decision in an appeal for her client's lawsuit claiming that a Queens doctor botched an abortion, according to the report, leading the court to order that Lee submit a copy of the decision that the lawyer later found she was "unable to furnish." The lawyer's conduct "falls well below the basic obligations of counsel," the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded in its disciplinary review, which was sent to Lee. Lee would later admit to using a case that was "suggested" to her by ChatGPT, a popular AI chatbot, and failing to verify the results herself. The lawyer's decision to use the popular application comes even though experts have warned against such practices, noting that AI is a relatively new technology that also is well-known for "hallucinating" false or misleading results.

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence technology has raised concerns about eliminating jobs held by humans. Professional photography is now coming into focus as one such potential casualty. "The rapid advancements in AI and image processing are transforming photography from a skill-based art to one that is increasingly technology-driven. This evolution is making high-quality photography accessible to a broader audience, challenging the traditional notion of professional photography as a skill," according to a report published Tuesday by Medium. "As we move further into this AI-driven era, it becomes evident that the role and relevance of professional photography skills, as we have known them, are becoming obsolete."

The rapid development of artificial intelligence has led some to fear dangerous scenarios where the technology is smarter than the humans who created it, but some experts believe AI has already reached that point in certain ways. "If you define it as performing intellectual but repetitive and bounded problems, they already are smarter. The best chess players and GO players are machines. And soon we can train them to do all tasks like that. Examples include legal analysis, simple writing and creating pictures on demand," Phil Siegel, the founder of the Center for Advanced Preparedness and Threat Response Simulation, told Fox News Digital.

OpenAI, the parent company of the popular artificial intelligence chatbot platform ChatGPT, altered its usage policy to get rid of a prohibition on using their technology for "military and warfare." OpenAI's usage policy specifically banned the use of its technology for "weapons development, military and warfare" before January 10 of this year, but that policy has since been updated to only disallow use that would "bring harm to others," according to a report from Computer World. "Our policy does not allow our tools to be used to harm people, develop weapons, for communications surveillance, or to injure others or destroy property," an OpenAI spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "There are, however, national security use cases that align with our mission. For example, we are already working with DARPA to spur the creation of new cybersecurity tools to secure open source software that critical infrastructure and industry depend on. It was not clear whether these beneficial use cases would have been allowed under'military' in our previous policies. So the goal with our policy update is to provide clarity and the ability to have these discussions."

Last year saw new artificial intelligence products released at the most rapid pace yet, though predictions of an AI boom on the scale of last decade's tech explosion have yet to come to fruition. "I think 2023 was the year that AI astonished people and 2024 will be the year of retrenchment as people learn the limitations of AI and where various AI systems have the greatest utility," Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer for Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital. "I think that the race for AI utility has just begun and AI will become a permanent fixture in people's lives. I think that the grand predictions for AI in this past year confused the current state of AI and the future state, which has led to some confusion in the market." Alexander's comments come after what was in many ways a landmark year for AI technology in 2023, with new platforms and developments making headlines throughout the year.

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A renowned astrophysicist is calling foul on reports of alien sightings in Earth's atmosphere, arguing that biological creatures would be unable to survive a journey to our planet. "It would take about a billion years to cross from one side of the Milky Way galaxy to the other," Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, said during an appearance on GB News this week. "Given that, I don't think any spacecraft that would arrive to us from another star would carry biological creatures." Loeb's comments come amid increased reports of UFO sightings in recent years, with videos and pictures of supposed alien craft going viral across the internet. It also comes after NASA created a new position aimed at overseeing research on UFOs after a 2022 study by the agency determined that such sightings were unlikely to be caused by extraterrestrial life.

Kara Frederick, tech director at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the need for regulations on artificial intelligence as lawmakers and tech titans discuss the potential risks. A Nobel Prize-winning economist is sounding the alarm about the future of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence, arguing that many of the currently in-demand jobs could soon be obsolete. "The skills that are needed now -- to collect the data, collate it, develop it and use it to develop the next phase of AI, or more to the point, make AI more applicable for jobs -- will make the skills that are needed now obsolete because it will be doing the job," said Christopher Pissarides, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, in a recent interview, according to a report from Time. "Despite the fact that you see growth, they're still not as numerous as might be required to have jobs for all those graduates coming out with STEM because that's what they want to do." The comments come as 2023 became a breakthrough year for AI technology, which has rapidly developed and gained increased mainstream applications.

Fox News' Eben Brown reports on how more companies are using AI technology to set retail prices based on data-driven supply and demand. A new way of using artificial intelligence to streamline traffic could soon be coming to cities across the country. Tech giant Google's new Project Green Light system is currently being used in Seattle as a way to combat the city's gridlocked streets, using the company's Maps database and AI to optimize traffic lights and suggest changes to city engineers, according to a report from CBS News. Such a system might be the ideal use for AI in its current form, according to Pioneer Development Group Chief Analytics Officer Christopher Alexander, who noted that managing traffic takes "sifting through massive amounts of data to find patterns," something that AI is perfectly capable of through the use of machine learning. This view shows the Seattle Space Needle and the downtown skyline with Mount Rainier in the background.

As wildfire activity reaches record levels, the tech integration company SAIC is developing artificial intelligence technology that can help predict when they'll happen, how to stop them, and how to keep folks safe. Artificial intelligence made a big splash with consumers and regulators alike in 2023, with experts believing the continued development of the technology will reach even greater heights in 2024. "I think that in 2024, AI will move a little closer to what is in the public imagination, but we remain years from AI being autonomous in the way people are imagining it," Christopher Alexander, chief analytics officer of Pioneer Development Group, told Fox News Digital. Alexander's comments come after 2023 saw a noticeable leap in the development and availability of AI tools, with popular language learning model (LLM) platforms such as OpenAI's ChatGPT gaining huge popularity and energizing other tech giants to come along for the ride. Artificial intelligence will gain new capabilities in 2024.