A new automated humanoid robot powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT resembles something akin to the AI Skynet from the sci-fi film Terminator While the new robot is not a killing machine, Figure 01 can perform basic autonomous tasks and carry out real-time conversations with humans - with the help of ChatGPT. The company, Figure AI, shared a demonstration video, showing how ChatGPT helps the two-legged machine visual objects, plan future actions and even reflect on its memory. Figure's cameras snap its surrounding and send them to a a large vision-language model trained by OpenAI, which than translates the images back to the robot. The clip showed a man asking the humanoid to put away dirty laundry, wash dishes and hand him something to eat - and the robot performed the tasks - but unlike ChatGPT, Figure is more hesitant when it comes to answering questions. Figure AI hopes that its first AI humanoid robot will prove capable at jobs too dangerous for human laborers and might alleviate worker shortages. 'Two weeks ago, we announced Figure OpenAI are joining forces to push the boundaries of robot learning,' Figure founder Brett Adcock wrote on X. 'Together we are developing next-generation AI models for our humanoid robots,' he added.

As yet, we cannot tell whether 2023 will be remembered for the movies that we saw or for the movies that were hobbled and hog-tied by industrial action. The strikes called by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America caused productions to be paused and release dates to be pushed back. If you missed Jeff Nichols's new film, "The Bikeriders," with Austin Butler and Tom Hardy, when it kicked off the Telluride Film Festival, at the end of August, but hoped to see it when it opened in early December, tough. Having been passed from one studio to another--20th Century Studios to Focus Features--like a difficult foster child, the movie will now be sent forth into the world next year. Amid this gloom, there were sparks of cheering news; not all artistic endeavors fell afoul of the strikes.

In the 1991 movie "Terminator 2: Judgment Day," a sentient killer robot travels back in time to stop the rise of artificial intelligence. The robot locates the computer scientist whose work will lead to the creation of Skynet, a computer system that will destroy the world, and convinces him that A.I. development must be stopped immediately. Together, they travel to the headquarters of Cyberdyne Systems, the company behind Skynet, and blow it up. The A.I. research is destroyed, and the course of history is changed--at least, for the rest of the film. In the sci-fi world of "Terminator 2," it's crystal clear what it means for an A.I. to become "self-aware," or to pose a danger to humanity; it's equally obvious what might be done to stop it.

Intrusion Tolerant Systems (ITSs) are a necessary component for cyber-services/infrastructures. Additionally, as cyberattacks follow a multi-domain attack surface, a similar defensive approach should be applied, namely, the use of an evolving multi-disciplinary solution that combines ITS, cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI). With the increased popularity of AI solutions, due to Big Data use-case scenarios and decision support and automation scenarios, new opportunities to apply Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have emerged, namely ITS empowerment. Using ML algorithms, an ITS can augment its intrusion tolerance capability, by learning from previous attacks and from known vulnerabilities. As such, this work's contribution is twofold: (1) an ITS architecture (Skynet) based on the state-of-the-art and incorporates new components to increase its intrusion tolerance capability and its adaptability to new adversaries; (2) an improved Risk Manager design that leverages AI to improve ITSs by automatically assessing OS risks to intrusions, and advise with safer configurations. One of the reasons that intrusions are successful is due to bad configurations or slow adaptability to new threats. This can be caused by the dependency that systems have for human intervention. One of the characteristics in Skynet and HAL 9000 design is the removal of human intervention. Being fully automatized lowers the chance of successful intrusions caused by human error. Our experiments using Skynet, shows that HAL is able to choose 15% safer configurations than the state-of-the-art risk manager.

Stories about artificial intelligence have been with us for decades, even centuries. In some, the robots serve humanity as cheerful helpers or soulful lovers. In others, the machines eclipse their human makers and try to wipe us out. "The Creator," a sci-fi film that hits theaters Friday, turns that narrative around: The United States is intent on wiping out a society of androids in Asia, afraid the artificially intelligent beings threaten human survival. Do any of these stories reflect our real-life future?

Have you ever seen the movie The Terminator? If you have, then you'll get where I'm going with this. If you haven't, then I've aged myself big time, and here's a quick summary: The Terminator is based on a cyborg assassin (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) who is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to save mankind from extinction by a company called Skynet. Skynet is an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) industry responsible for a post-apocalyptic future where robots take over the world. While this movie (and its many sequels) became a big hit all over the world, it's also one of the movies that have inspired the general public to not trust A.I. I can't tell you how many times a new piece of technology is created without hearing some form of warning or fear: "Watch out for the robots will come and take over the world!"

When I was a much younger person, there were a couple of popular movies offering warnings about the dangers of unchecked artificial intelligence. The first is 1983′s "WarGames," in which a young computer hacker played by Matthew Broderick accidentally triggers a countdown to the launch of the full arsenal of the United States nuclear stockpile at the Soviet Union because the Pentagon had handed control of the intercontinental ballistic missile system to a computer program, following the failure of humans to execute launch orders during a training exercise. The second one is 1984′s "The Terminator," where killer robot Arnold Schwarzenegger is dispatched back in time by the sentient artificial intelligence (called Skynet) in order to assassinate the hero of the resistance that is fighting the artificial intelligence in the future. I think I have that right. I honestly never understood the whole time travel aspect of the "Terminator" franchise.

This felt a bit surreal, like a subplot in a William Gibson novel: It's not even 2023 yet, and I've already paid actual dineros to buy a copy of an AI co-authored book, with an ISBN number and everything! The human author doesn't use the term "co-authored" or "co-written". Instead, he shrewdly refers to the collaboration as: "based on a conversation with a deep-learning model"; However, at the end of the book he plainly states that it was "%99 generated in a conversation with ChatGPT", and that it was "written front to cover in one single Sunday afternoon". "The book was written front to cover in one single Sunday afternoon" "%99 generated in a conversation with ChatGPT" I follow the author Chris Laffra's Amazon author page. He wrote the excellent (and highly-recommended) "Communication for Engineers", as well as an older textbook "Advanced Java".

ChatGPT is a language model developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory founded in late 2015 by Elon Musk (yes, him again) and Sam Altman. It is designed to be able to generate natural language text in response to user inputs. The model is based on the GPT-3 architecture, which uses a combination of deep learning and natural language processing techniques to generate text that is similar to human-generated language. On the positive side, ChatGPT has shown impressive capabilities in generating text that is coherent and relatively natural-sounding. In tests, the model has been able to generate responses to user inputs that are relevant and on-topic, and in some cases it has even been able to engage in complex conversations that span multiple topics.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved into a personal digital assistant rather than a physical machine like the Terminator, says Samer Shoueiry of the creative communications group Publicis Communications. And it is developing at a speed that is "incredible", adds the regional executive head of digital and social marketing for the company. "We see AI today in everything we do as the personal digital assistant – someone returning your web searches, filtering your spam emails, the technology assisting everything within your car," he says. AI can be seen in every aspect of technology that links to digitisation, adds Mr Shoueiry, who spoke at the recent Dubai Lynx advertising festival. Research company Forrester claims that cognitive technologies such as AI and machine learning will replace 16 per cent of US jobs by 2025, in a report it published last year entitled Sharing Your Cubicle With Robots.