Fox News correspondent Matt Finn has the latest on the impact of AI technology that some say could outpace humans on'Special Report.' Stanford researchers have leveraged generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create a simulated town comprising various characters, each with unique identities, memories and behaviors. The simulation, discussed at length in the new research paper "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior," has been compared to an advanced version of the life simulation videogame "The Sims," as well as the HBO sci-fi series "Westworld." The latter tells the story of a theme park where robots are preloaded with storylines and personalities for wealthy human guests to interact with. Each day the robots are reset to their core tasks, but until then, they act like real humans, remembering their experiences, what people said to them and how they relate to the world around them.

Researchers from Stanford University have created a new artificial intelligence (AI) powered camera system capable of processing images in a faster, more efficient way, and holds a promising future for being applied to self-driving vehicles or security cameras. The breakthrough was published in the science journal Nature on Friday. A research team led by Gordon Wetzstein, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford, combined two types of computers into one hybrid optical-electrical computer designed specifically for image analysis. The AI-powered camera system includes an optical computer in the first layer, which does not perform digital computing that requires power-intensive mathematics algorithms, while the second layer is a traditional digital electronic computer. The optical computer is responsible for physical pre-processing of image data involving multiple ways of filtering, which requires zero input power, because the filtering happens naturally as light passes through the custom optics.