Lammy said Vance, usually known as an AI enthusiast, expressed concern about how technology was fuelling'hyper-pornographied slop' online. Lammy said Vance, usually known as an AI enthusiast, expressed concern about how technology was fuelling'hyper-pornographied slop' online. David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are'unacceptable' Exclusive: US vice-president'sympathetic' to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM JD Vance, the US vice-president, has agreed that it is "entirely unacceptable" for platforms such as X to allow the proliferation of AI-generated sexualised images of women and children, David Lammy has told the Guardian. The deputy prime minister said Vance, usually known as an AI enthusiast, expressed concern about how the technology was being used to fuel "hyper-pornographied slop" online when they met in Washington on Thursday. The comments come amid a growing transatlantic row over the use of X's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, to manipulate thousands of images of women and sometimes children to remove their clothing or put them in sexual positions.

The US and the UK have refused to sign the Paris AI summit's declaration on "inclusive and sustainable" artificial intelligence, in a blow to hopes for a concerted approach to developing and regulating the technology. The two countries did not immediately explain their reasons for not adding their names to a document backed by 60 signatories on Tuesday, including China, India, Japan, Australia and Canada. The UK prime minister's official spokesperson said France was one of the UK's closest partners in AI, but the government would "only ever sign up to initiatives that are in UK national interests". But they added that the UK had signed up to the summit's Coalition for Sustainable AI and had backed a statement on cybersecurity. Asked if the UK had declined to sign up because the US had refused to do so, the spokesperson said they were "not aware of the US reasons or position" on the declaration.

I last interviewed Ebrahim Raisi, the ultra-hard-line President of Iran, during his début appearance at the United Nations, in 2022. He spoke belligerently and with such speed that the interpreter struggled to keep up. He was the same on the U.N. dais, where he furiously waved a photo of General Qassem Soleimani and demanded that Donald Trump be tried for ordering his assassination--a "savage, illegal, immoral crime"--in a U.S. drone strike, in 2020. Back home, Iran was in turmoil after nationwide protests erupted in response to the death, in police custody, of a twenty-two-year-old named Mahsa Amini. She had been arrested for improper hijab; too much hair was showing.

Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt "reasonable precautions" to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world. Executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok gathered at the Munich Security Conference to announce a new framework for how they respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. Twelve other companies – including Elon Musk's X – are also signing on to the accord. "Everybody recognizes that no one tech company, no one government, no one civil society organization is able to deal with the advent of this technology and its possible nefarious use on their own," said Nick Clegg, president of global affairs for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, in an interview ahead of the summit. The accord is largely symbolic, but targets increasingly realistic AI-generated images, audio and video "that deceptively fake or alter the appearance, voice, or actions of political candidates, election officials, and other key stakeholders in a democratic election, or that provide false information to voters about when, where, and how they can lawfully vote".

You may be wondering, What sorts of features can I expect from a chatbot that generates text based on Mike Pence's speeches and interviews? Well, look no further than this handy guide, which summarizes some of PenceGPT's exciting new offerings: Woman Identifier: Not sure whether the woman sitting next to you is your wife or your mother? Neither is Mike Pence, apparently. Simply type, "Who is this woman?" Conservative Poetry: We understand that one of ChatGPT's primary use cases is poem generation, and we've adapted PenceGPT's poem generator to reflect the Vice-President's values and political beliefs.

As we look back at 2022, it's clear that the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made some very important strides. From breakthroughs in natural language processing and computer vision to improved adoption of AI by businesses, we've seen several milestones. It's no doubt that AI will continue its explosive growth into 2023. However, given the rapid pace of change, it's important to separate meaningful advancements from distracting fads. To understand the top AI trends, I asked industry leaders and academic experts five questions. It's the age of human-machine collaboration, so what better way to demonstrate this than by asking AI software about the 2023 AI trends it's excited about?

The latest Deloitte UK CFO survey, for the third quarter of 2022, demonstrates just how badly external economic factors are impacting businesses. Some 91% of CFOs expect operating margins to decline over the next 12 months, and cost reduction and cash control are now their top priorities. Faced with these challenges, finance departments need to shift away from dealing with basic accountancy tasks, and instead become more strategic, identifying ways to add value to the business to ensure survival through the economic crisis. One of the best ways to achieve this is with technology that helps CFOs not only predict, forecast and plan, but also apply automation to reduce manual finance tasks. Through its enterprise performance management (EPM) and analytics technology, Oracle offers capabilities around planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting, as well as risk management and automation.

INCREMENTAL forward steps towards digitalisation made by the air cargo industry are starting to pay off, observes Thelma Etim. There is no doubt that, in many areas of its business, the airfreight industry is still grappling with the burden of paper airwaybills (AWBs), the accompanying pouch and old-generation ground handling operations, such as airside ramp transport and road feeder services, as well as so many other politically complex matters such as analogue Customs agencies. It is not surprising that any digital changes embraced by carriers and others are already showing benefits. "The development and implementation of next-generation technologies, rapid advances in consumer technology, increasing the shift to cloud computing, the utilisation of internet of things (IoT), big data and machine learning (ML) to collect and analyse large amounts of data – are all currently transforming processes in the [airline] industry," an expansive report by consultancy Frost and Sullivan observes. It predicts the airline digitalisation market will earn more than US$35.42billion

Chess is known for being one of the games played with calm concentration, patience and strategic thinking. However, a game of chess took a violent turn at the Moscow Open when a chess-playing robot callously grabbed and broke a 7-year-old boy's finger and fractured it during a match. The robot was purportedly unsettled by the quick responses of his opponent, according to several Russian media outlets. All acquisition that advanced AI will destroy humanity is false. Not the powerful AI or breaching laws of robotics will destroy humanity, but engineers with both left hands:/ On video - a chess robot breaks a kid's finger at Moscow Chess Open today. According to the president of the Moscow Chess Federation, Sergey Lazarev, the robot has played several matches earlier without being perturbed.

The relatively new concept of intelligent workload balancing is an important one to consider when operating RPA, because it determines whether tasks are more suitable for human employees or their digital colleagues. With this in mind, five industry experts identify particular ways in which this can be applied to this space. Firstly, intelligent workload balancing can be used to check that bots can adhere to rules set up by the company. "The ability to automatically decide if an activity requires human intervention or if it can be performed by a bot is usually called'intelligent workload balancing'," said Sathya Srinivasan, vice-president, solutions consulting (Partners) at Appian. "The intelligence comes from the business rules that determine who is the best candidate to complete the work – human or bot. If human, which department, group, experience level or management is best to handle this case, and if bot, what does it take to bring a bot in, how flexible can a bot cater to different types of requests. Chris Duddridge, area vice president and managing director UKI at UiPath, explores the link between compliance and robotic process automation. "To be truly effective, a bot must be able to work across a wide set of parameters.