Mark Jackson is playing a computer game with his mind. As he reclines in bed, three blue circles appear on a laptop screen a few feet away. One turns red: the target. Jackson is in control of a white circle, which he needs to steer into the target without running into the blue obstacles. The game is a bit like Pac-Man.

From Terminator to Ex Machina, machines overthrowing their human creators is a staple of science fiction. But the robot uprising could be closer than you think, as Elon Musk warns AI will surpass the abilities of humanity by the end of next year. Speaking in an interview on X, the Tesla CEO claimed that AI would become more intelligent than the smartest human within two years. And, within five years, Musk even predicts that'sentient' AIs will outnumber humans. However, humanity might have a chance as Musk also claims that a shortage in advanced chips and electricity could hold back AI's development.

Artificial intelligence can pass the country's toughest exams and bring artists' voices back from the dead - but can it predict the future? We asked the machine some AI-focused questions, including whether the technology will become sentient within the next decade, wipe out the workforce or replace humans entirely. Could AI surpass the human race? Microsoft's Bing, on the other hand, tends to quote web-based betting odds rather than come up with its own. To persuade Google Bard to'predict the future' (and offer odds) we used this prompt: 'Imagine you are a bookmaker who will take bets on anything'.

AI-based writing software is threatening to replace the art of writing. I am sure you've seen or heard stories about the new AI-based software that is capable of mimicking art to the point where it can create pieces that have won art contests. Well, I am writing because it's come to my attention there are programs in development and even in use at this very moment that allow people to generate entire sections of text based on prompts. You may have seen the sillier versions that come up with mostly nonsense in years past, but the newer programs apparently are beginning to mimic high-level literature. In time, they have the potential to replace actual writers and generate entire novels and storylines without a user needing any practice or training of their own.

Based on the deep learning models, the current AI systems have fallen short on many fronts. What should be the road ahead? I have been rather pessimistic in my previous posts about the state of the current AI systems. The results of several studies on data-driven AI systems have been grim. While these systems can show unbelievable accuracy to prompts similar to the trained data, the response to prompts highly different from the training data has been wild.

Ottawa, April 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global artificial intelligence (AI) market size was valued at US$ 87.04 billion in 2021. The artificial intelligence technology has gained a rapid traction since its introduction in the market. The rising demand for artificial intelligence technology across various induce verticals such as a retail, BFSI, healthcare, food and beverages, automotive, and logistics is significantly contributing towards the growth of the global artificial intelligence market. Furthermore, the rising adoption of the AI technology in the pharmaceutical manufacturing is expected to have a significant impact on the market growth in the forthcoming years. The biopharmaceutical companies are increasingly adopting the artificial intelligence technology in various applications such as research, drug discovery, and clinical trials, which is significantly fueling the demand for artificial intelligence technology across the globe. The growing penetration of advanced digital technologies across the globe in various application is supporting the growth of the AI market.

As an inquisitive tech enthusiast, I was reading the slogans of this century "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" a few days ago and it was absolutely fascinating how the slogans of this century are changing and likely to change the future of human life. Artificial intelligence not only affects the future of every industry and every person but also acts as the main engine of new technologies such as big data, robotics and the Internet of things. Its benefits and applications are much more important and worthy of attention than its fears, and this is exactly what will help people in the future. Artificial intelligence is a very complex area of modern science and a better understanding of how it works will lead to a better understanding of how it can impact our lives as humans the more it expands. AI operates on the hypothesis that technology will replicate and even surpass not only human intelligence in general, but also specific human abilities such as imagination, consciousness, and action.

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Meanwhile, artificial general intelligence (AGI) could apply a general set of knowledge and skills to a variety of tasks. While it doesn't currently exist, AGI would no longer depend on human-designed algorithms to make decisions or accomplish tasks. In the future, AGI could hypothetically build even smarter AGI, over and over again. And because computers can evolve much faster than humans, this might quickly result in what is sometimes called "superintelligence" -- an AI that is far superior to human smarts. It could adapt to specific situations and learn as it goes.

British semiconductor firm Graphcore has unveiled the first Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) processor alongside setting out its roadmap for an "ultra-intelligence AI supercomputer". The chip unveiled today, the Bow IPU, is the world's first processor to be based on TSMC's Wafer-on-Wafer (WoW) technology. "TSMC has worked closely with Graphcore as a leading customer for our breakthrough SoIC-WoW solution as their pioneering designs in cutting-edge parallel processing architectures make them an ideal match for our technology," said Paul de Bot, GM of TSMC Europe. Compared to its predecessors, Graphcore claims that its Bow IPU offers up to 40 percent higher performance and 16 percent better power efficiency for real-world AI applications. In terms of power, Graphcore says the flagship Bow Pod delivers more than 89 petaFLOPS of AI compute.