An artificially intelligent machine took to the podium at the Cambridge Union in the U.K. to debate the pros and cons of AI with humans--at one point telling the audience "AI can cause a lot of harm." However, it was the side in favor of AI that came out top, achieving a narrow victory by scoring votes from just over half the audience. According to Fortune, the AI's arguments were extracted from over 1,100 submissions sent in to IBM the week before the debate, which were categorized as being in favor or opposed to AI, or discarded entirely as being irrelevant to the debate. From these, IBM's Project Debater searched and condensed the strongest and most diverse arguments to repeat when given a short opening sentence as a prompt. The case for the benefits of AI included the argument that it could generate new jobs and bring greater efficiency to the workplace, while those against included the problem of human biases and AI being incapable of making moral decisions.

Robots are already coming for our jobs, and now it looks like they're coming for our treasured cultural ceremonies, too. On Monday, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's Hubo robot carried the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics relay torch for a stretch of the relay in Daejon, South Korea. Even more impressively, as shown in the clip below from Arirang News, Hubo used a tool mounted on one of its other arms to cut through a wall and pass the torch through, all without accidentally setting anything on fire. According to Olympics news website Inside the Games, it's not the first robot in history to carry the torch--or even the first one in the 2018 relay. Earlier this year, an "undersea robotic craft helped carry the flame" for a separate stretch of the months-long relay, which involves some 7,500 volunteers.

Robots are already coming for our jobs, and now it looks like they're coming for our treasured cultural ceremonies, too. On Monday, the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology's Hubo robot carried the Pyeongchang 2018 Olympics relay torch for a stretch of the relay in Daejon, South Korea. Even more impressively, as shown in the clip below from Arirang News, Hubo used a tool mounted on one of its other arms to cut through a wall and pass the torch through, all without accidentally setting anything on fire. According to Olympics news website Inside the Games, it's not the first robot in history to carry the torch--or even the first one in the 2018 relay. Earlier this year, an "undersea robotic craft helped carry the flame" for a separate stretch of the months-long relay, which involves some 7,500 volunteers.

Get ready for some friendly robots in your airport. LG made two different ones -- one is the Airport Guide Robot while the other is a Cleaning Robot. Simply feed it your boarding pass and it will tell you how to get to your gate and when your flight is going to take off. It can also respond to your voice, tell you the weather of your destination, and offer directions in one of four languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Oh, and there's a giant display where it shows you where to go. It can even walk you to your gate, if you prefer.