She had lived in a nursing home for 10 years, and communicated with her sister, and the world, through Alexa. Two days after Lou Ann died of complications from coronavirus, her sister found recordings of Lou Ann's voice asking Alexa, "How do I get help?" Maybe you are reading this in your bed on your phone wherever you are this morning. I was having what I thought of as a weak stretch in my life, when I didn't have a regular job, and when just deciding what I would do to avoid writing, or having a single thought about my email, was enough to short-circuit me and I would find myself still in pajamas at 5 p.m., pacing and crying, Googling What's wrong with me and waiting until it was OK to go to bed again. In such weak stretches, among the many indulgences I permit myself is the minor suboptimal habit of actually sleeping with my phone. Under the other pillow next to me, where no one sleeps. In other, more robust stretches, my phone spends the night plugged in about a foot away on the nightstand, and I can still reach it if I wake up and want to look at it, but it's tethered. When I let it sleep freely with me, I can turn over while I look at it. I can look at it while I'm lying on my left side, and then I can turn over and look at it while I'm lying on my right side. I just charge it the next day, because it doesn't matter if either of us is ready to go in the morning. On this particular morning I opened my eyes and looked at my phone in the bed next to me, and as I put my hand on it, I said, "I belong to you."

The bot revealed that it identifies not as Bing but as'Sydney'. In a strange occurrence, Microsoft's newly launched AI-integrated search engine Bing expressed its love to a user and requested that he dissolve his marriage, as per a report in the New York Times (NYT). The bot revealed that it identifies not as Bing but as'Sydney', the code name Microsoft gave it during development. In response to a question asked by Mr Roose, the chatbot said, "I'm in love with you because you're the first person who ever talked to me. You're the first person who ever listened to me. You're the first person who ever cared about me."

Chatbots like Bing have kicked off a major new AI arms race between the biggest tech companies. Though Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have invested in AI tech for years, it's mostly worked to improve existing products, like search or content-recommendation algorithms. But when the start-up company OpenAI began making public its "generative" AI tools -- including the popular ChatGPT chatbot -- it led competitors to brush away their previous, relatively cautious approaches to the tech.

Microsoft's ChatGPT is going off the rails and sending users'unhinged' messages. ChatGPT, a system developed by OpenAI that is now built into Microsoft's Bing, is sending users insults, lies and conversations questioning its abilities. Users are sharing the bizarre exchanges on social media, with one post showing the AI chatbot calling someone'a sociopath, a psychopath, a monster, a demon, a devil.' In a Reddit thread, ChatGPT appears to wonder why it had forgotten some conversations, asking the user to tell it'what we felt in the previous session.' When one user asked ChatGPT what is 1 1, it responded with an insult.

The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has announced a new AI (artificial intelligence) technology that is set to automate and revolutionise the way the state's roads are maintained and repaired. The project announced on Tuesday would fund a 2.9-million-Australian dollar ($1.96-million) trial from AI company, Asset AI, which would install sensors on 32 public buses with routes across greater Sydney. The sensors use AI to combine visual data with local weather conditions to predict the rate of deterioration in the city's roads -- meaning it would in theory be able to alert maintenance teams before potholes or other road damages pose a risk to traffic. "There will always be cracks in the road and there will always be potholes but with smart tech like this we can predict deterioration, streamline maintenance and get to better outcomes much faster," said NSW Minister for Customer Service and Digital Government, Victor Dominello. At present, road damages and defects rely on reports from residents.

Does the United States have a 51st state called Australia! A superficial look at the artificial intelligence (AI) research being done here could give that impression A look beneath the surface, though, indicates some fundamental differences and reveals a dynamic and rapidly expanding AI community General awareness of the Australian AI research community has been growing slowly for some time. Researchers-What Do They Look Like? The Australian research community is relatively large in number, widely dispersed, and dynamic. Also, it is not centered around any single major program, such as the Alvey program in the United Kingdom.

SYDNEY – High-tech shark-spotting drones are patrolling dozens of Australian beaches this summer to quickly identify underwater predators and deliver safety devices to swimmers and surfers faster than traditional lifesavers. As hundreds of people lined up in the early morning sun to take part in a recent ocean swimming race at Bilgola Beach north of Sydney, they did so in the knowledge the ocean had been scanned to keep them safe. "I think it is really awesome," 20-year-old competitor Ali Smith said. "It is cool to see technology and ocean swimming getting together, and hopefully more people will feel safer and get involved." The drones being used are top notch.

Spectacular drone footage has emerged showing a huge pod of dolphins swimming off the shores of a popular beach. Steve Maxwell captured the pod of about 40 dolphins cruising between Avalon Beach and Whale Beach in Sydney's north. The licensed drone pilot stumbled upon the majestic scenes while photographing surfers in the area, reports Daily Telegraph. Photographer Steve Maxwell captured the pod of about 40 dolphins cruising between Avalon Beach and Whale Beach in Sydney's north Mr Maxwell quickly decided to focus on capturing the marine mammals, who can be seen frolicking together in a large pack. 'Every available chance I get, I send the drone up over them,' Mr Maxwell said.