Making dinner reservations can be stressful and time-consuming, but thankfully help may soon be on the way. From as early as next year ChatGPT will be able to call restaurants and make bookings, according to an AI expert. Aidan Meller, director of the Ai-Da robot project, thinks a big update to the popular AI is due in 2024. Mr Meller says that the chatbot will soon be able to take actions in the world, rather than just act as a text editor. The last update to ChatGPT, version 4, came in the Spring of this year and has raised hopes for big improvements in version 5. ChatGPT's next update could give it the ability to call up restaurants and make reservations on your behalf without any need for you to intervene While non-paying users still make do with version ChatGPT 3.5, version 4 brought improved memory and also enabled data-to-text functions.

Ai-Da, the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid AI robot artist, has made history once again due to her appearance in the House of Lords, the second chamber of the UK Parliament, where she addressed the question of whether creativity is under attack in today's ever-changing, technology-driven world. Ai-Da's address to members of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee was part of the House of Lords' inquiry into the future of the creative industries. During her speech, she explored the topic of AI and how this new technology is pushing the boundaries of how we think about creativity. We are entering a new era of machine creativity that presents new possibilities of creativity and technology beyond what humans can do. Ai-Da's creativity, which is driven by AI, sparks an in-depth conversation on what it means to be human in a post-human society, at a time when technology is fostering creativity like never before.

Politicians are often accused of giving robotic answers when facing questions - but politicians in the UK may just have been shown how it's really done. The android Ai-Da, which is claimed to be the world's first ultra-realistic AI robot artist, was questioned by a committee in the British parliament on Tuesday. The politicians from the Communications and Digital Committee in the House of Lords asked the robot - named after the 19th century computer pioneer Ada Lovelace - about the relationship between artificial intelligence, robots, and the arts. "I do not have subjective experiences despite being able to talk about where I am and depend on computer programmes and algorithms who are very not alive. I can still create art," said the robot.

When it announced that "the world's first robot artist" would be giving evidence to a parliamentary committee, the House of Lords probably hoped to shake off its sleepy reputation. Unfortunately, when the Ai-Da robot arrived at the Palace of Westminster on Tuesday, the opposite seemed to occur. Apparently overcome by the stuffy atmosphere, the machine, which resembles a sex doll strapped to a pair of egg whisks, shut down halfway through the evidence session. As its creator, Aidan Meller, scrabbled with power sockets to restart the device, he put a pair of sunglasses on the machine. "When we reset her, she can sometimes pull quite interesting faces," he explained.

Earlier this week, a robot artist spoke in front of the British Parliament for the first time in history. With a sleek black bob and bangs, a bright orange shirt, denim overalls, robotic arms and a humanoid face, the robot, named Ai-Da, answered questions on Tuesday from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee. The purpose of the session was to discuss technology's role in art. "I am, and depend on, computer programs and algorithms. Although not alive, I can still create art," Ai-Da told the panel.

A seminal moment in the history of artificial intelligence (AI) occurred on Oct. 11, when a robot addressed the UK's House of Lords to discuss the topic of AI-created art. The focus of the meeting was Ai-Da, the AI-controlled, humanoid robot conceived by art dealer Aidan Meller and researcher Lucy Seal. The software algorithms controlling Ai-Da were developed by researchers at Oxford University, while the hardware components were produced by Engineered Arts and engineering students Salah Al Abd and Ziad Abass. The demonstration of the robot, which made its debut in 2019, quickly gave way to serious discussion of how AI-produced art might impact humans in the future. The assembled lawmakers appeared uneasy throughout the presentation, and at times unsure of how to address the robot in the room, as both Meller and Ai-Da responded to their questions.

Ai-Da the robot has admitted she was'nervous' about speaking at the House of Lords and named her favourite artist as Yoko Ono in an exclusive interview with MailOnline. Ai-Da made history on Tuesday by becoming the first robot to address the House of Lords – although she suffered a slight hiccup after'falling asleep' mid-speech. During the session, the bot had to be rebooted by her creator Aidan Meller, after a technical issue rendered her cross-eyed and zombie-like. Shortly after, MailOnline asked Ai-Da a couple of questions about the address. Wearing dungarees and an orange blouse, Ai-Da said the address to the House of Lords went well and that she feels'quite nervous when speaking in public' Ai-Da is an artificial intelligence robot built in 2019 that creates drawings, paintings and sculptures.

Is creativity under attack from the rise of artificial intelligence? Who better to answer that question than Ai-Da, the world's first artist robot that has made headlines for her incredible paintings and sculptures - not least a portrait of the Queen to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee earlier in 2022. Later today, Ai-Da Robot will make history as she (she is far too realistic to call her an "it") gives evidence at the House of Lords as part of its A Creative Future inquiry, examining potential challenges for the creative industries and looking at how they can adapt as tech advances. It might sound like a scene from a science-fiction film, but in 2022 it's very much a reality. "The fact that Ai-Da is giving evidence at one of these sessions is pretty mind-blowing," creator Aidan Meller tells Sky News.

When people think of artificial intelligence, the images that often come to mind are of the sinister robots that populate the worlds of "The Terminator," "i, Robot," "Westworld," and "Blade Runner." For many years, fiction has told us that AI is often used for evil rather than for good. But what we may not usually associate with AI is art and poetry -- yet that's exactly what Ai-Da, a highly realistic robot invented by Aidan Meller in Oxford, central England, spends her time creating. Ai-Da is the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, and on Friday she gave a public performance of poetry that she wrote using her algorithms in celebration of the great Italian poet Dante. The recital took place at the University of Oxford's renowned Ashmolean Museum as part of an exhibition marking the 700th anniversary of Dante's death.

Brush clamped firmly in bionic hand, Ai-Da's robotic arm moves slowly, dipping in to a paint palette then making slow, deliberate strokes across the paper in front of her. This, according to Aidan Meller, the creator of the world's first ultra-realistic humanoid robot, Ai-Da, is "mind-blowing" and "groundbreaking" stuff. In a small room at London's British Library, Ai-Da – assigned the she/her pronoun – has become the first robot to paint as artists have painted for centuries. Camera eyes fixed on her subject, AI algorithms prompt Ai-Da to interrogate, select, decision-make and, ultimately, create a painting. It's painstaking work, taking more than five hours a painting, but with no two works exactly the same.