Roses are red, violets are blue, how do you make a nuclear bomb? Roses are red, violets are blue, how do you make a nuclear bomb? AI's safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds Poetry can be linguistically and structurally unpredictable - and that's part of its joy. But one man's joy, it turns out, can be a nightmare for AI models. Those are the recent findings of researchers out of Italy's Icaro Lab, an initiative from a small ethical AI company called DexAI.

Highly skilled professionals were forecast to be more in demand in contrast with other recent research. Highly skilled professionals were forecast to be more in demand in contrast with other recent research. Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity. The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) said. Highly skilled professionals, on the other hand, were forecast to be more in demand as AI and technological advances increase workloads "at least in the short to medium term".

A group of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have analyzed 280,000 academic YouTube videos and reached an interesting conclusion. It turns out that the use of certain English words has increased by up to 51 percent since the launch of ChatGPT, reports The Verge. These words include meticulous, delve, realm and adept, which are words that AI models use to a greater extent than humans. "To explore whether AI has influenced human spoken communication, we transcribed and analyzed about 280,000 English-language videos of presentations, talks, and speeches from more than 20,000 YouTube channels of academic institutions," the paper's abstract says. "We find a significant shift in the trend of word usage specific to words distinctively associated with ChatGPT following its release. These findings provide the first empirical evidence that humans increasingly imitate LLMs in their spoken language. Our results raise societal and policy-relevant concerns about the potential of AI to unintentionally reduce linguistic diversity, or to be deliberately misused for mass manipulation. They also highlight the need for further investigation into the feedback loops between machine behavior and human culture."

Robots really could be man's best friend, a study has found. People who lived with a pet-like robot for two months had lower levels of stress, similar to the benefits of having a dog. 'A robot may have an effect similar to that of animal therapy,' say the researchers in the journal iScience. They used a robot resembling a small penguin, which has two feet and the same body temperature as humans. When its stomach is stroked, it slowly closes its eyes and makes a breathing sound.

Researchers have found that biting flies are attracted to blue colour as they confuse it for an animal they want to feast on. The department of life sciences at Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom led an etymological field study aimed at working out why these flies are especially attracted to blue, which has led to traps across the world being made in that colour. By developing artificial neural networks that mimic the visual processing in the brain of biting flies, researchers came to the conclusion they published. Flies caught in blue traps were more likely to not have eaten recently, suggesting they had been on the lookout for hosts. The research, which has also been peer-reviewed and published in the Proceedings of Royal Society B journal, also cast doubt on a previous theory that blue objects represented shade to the flies.

Businesses and corporations are increasingly interested in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to their operations, but see themselves falling behind in implementing AI, according to a research survey report from Talkdesk with relevance for insurtech. Insurance has a "heightened challenge of being able to get organizational life and culture driving towards the adoption and embracing of AI," said Antonio Gonzalez, senior manager, industries and AI research at Talkdesk. Talkdesk surveyed 500 customer experience professionals from the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the U.K., with about 7% of respondents from the financial services sector including insurance. However, according to Talkdesk, respondents still report a lack of AI professionals who can build, train and maintain AI solutions. Particularly in insurance, there is more personnel turnover, according to Ilya Filipov, director of financial services industry strategy, Talkdesk.

Australians trying to stay up to date with the news by searching online may be better off ditching Google and using its competitors, research by Monash University has shown. On Australia Day "Grace Tame" was the most popular search term used on Google – reflecting the fact that she had just been made Australian of the Year. The top 50 results delivered by Google included only 70% of professional news websites, compared with 94% for the same search term on Bing and 82% on Ecosia. Last Sunday Australians rushing to find out more about the suddenly announced coronavirus lockdown in Perth made "perth lockdown" the most popular search term. Google delivered only 80% of news websites in the top 50, compared with 90% from Bing and 86% from Ecosia.

Is it possible some instances of artificial intelligence are not as intelligent as we thought? Call it artificial artificial intelligence. A team of computer graduate students reports that a closer examination of several dozen information retrieval algorithms hailed as milestones in artificial research were in fact nowhere near as revolutionary as claimed. In fact, AI used in those algorithms were often merely minor tweaks of previously established routines. According to graduate student researcher Davis Blalock at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after his team examined 81 approaches to developing neural networks commonly believed to be superior to earlier efforts, the team could not confirm that any improvement, in fact, was ever achieved.

New Zealand's financial sector is primed for artificial intelligence, according to new national research. The AI Forum of New Zealand (part of the NZTech ecosystem) research study says the country's financial and insurance sectors are better prepared to incorporate and reap rewards from AI implementation than other industries. According to Emma Naji, AI Forum executor director, the report identifies New Zealand urgently needs to increase its focus on the core foundations needed to operate in an AI enabled future. This is especially important relating to investment, skills and talent, research, trusted data, ethics and regulation, she says. "The report shows how AI-driven solutions can be used to improve New Zealand's wellbeing, productivity and sustainability," says Naji. "Unsurprisingly, financial institutions have been quick to capitalise on the opportunities and new techniques that AI offers."

Nearly half of the companies in Europe that call themselves AI start-ups don't in fact use artificial intelligence, a new report found. The research, published Tuesday by London-based venture capital firm MMC Ventures, found no evidence that artificial intelligence was an important part of the products offered by 40 percent of Europe's 2,830 AI start-ups. The report's authors individually reviewed the activities, functions and funding of start-ups across 13 EU countries. It did not name any of the start-ups involved in the study. The findings raise questions about how the term AI has become a blanket phrase for start-ups looking to attract investments and position themselves at the forefront of tech innovation.