Are you tucked in your couch, snuggled up with a fire burning, twiddling your time away on mindless entertainment because you've done your shopping, stated your obligatory holiday cheer on social media, and now you're just mindlessly doom scrolling your device? My latest distraction is Open A.I. ChatGPT. This is artificial intelligence, a language processing tool driven by A.I. with which you can have human-like conversations. It will answer questions, help you with tasks like writing emails, essays, or even code. We've trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way.

Fifteen years ago, when I returned home after fighting in Iraq, a friend asked me to describe the bravest thing I saw anyone do. I had led a Marine platoon in the Second Battle of Fallujah, in 2004, and had seen plenty of heroism--Marines dragging their wounded off machine-gun-swept streets, or fighting room to room to recover a comrade's body. But none of these compared to the cumulative heroism of the 19- and 20-year-old infantrymen who placed their bodies across that fatal funnel--a doorway with a potential enemy inside--every day. Clearing the enemy from the city, house by house, was a game of Russian roulette played on a grand scale. You never knew who might be waiting on the other side of the door.

The wait is over as gamers get a glimpse of Activision's 2019 "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare." LOS ANGELES – We already knew that the next "Call of Duty" video game would reclaim the "Modern Warfare" brand. But the Activision-owned studio Infinity Ward revealed new details about the game here at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, showing some footage from the game and talking about its development. Set in the modern day, "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare," out Oct. 25 for PS4, Xbox One and PCs, will pit U.S. and allied troops, including freedom fighters, against an international threat. The game is not a sequel to the trilogy of releases from Infinity Ward that started with 2007's "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare" and ended with "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3" in 2011.

Matthew Wojciechowski, a fit and healthy retired U.S. Navy SEAL, was working as a contractor for the CIA's Global Response Staff in a Middle East outpost. Suddenly on Dec. 21, 2011, he was struck with crippling chest pain and was soon shaking violently. "I felt like I was going to die, and as an American citizen, I was trying to get some help," he told Fox News. "But was told because I was a contractor I was under a different set of rules for care." So instead of being examined by a U.S. medical professional at the consulate, Wojciechowski said he was shocked that he was sent to a local hospital – and seen by a doctor who did not speak English – who misdiagnosed him simply as having heartburn.

The Pentagon is developing its own'AI soldier drones' that can hunt down the enemy and even fly inside buildings to give military bosses a look inside. A 1m Army award, awarded through a new Pentagon tech-focused'Defense Innovation Unit Experimental' project, is for a nine-month'prototype project in the area of Autonomous Tactical Airborne Drones'. It will work with a secretive firm called Shield AI to develop the systems. One of Shield AI#'s drones in action: It can create a 3D map of a room and send it back to controllers. It is believed the units could be sent into buildings by special forces soldiers to create 3D maps, one of which is shown here.