Day: March 2, 2023

By Rob Lenihan Fiat and Kia are both moving the car buying experience into the metaverse with ChatGPT. So, you say you’re tired of pushy car salespeople pouncing on you the moment you walk through the showroom door? I tell you what I’m gonna do… DON’T MISS: Audi Considers U.S. For New EV Auto Plant Kia and Fiat are flooring the virtual pedal and taking the car-buying experience into the metaverse. Both companies are using ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November. Yes, there are some of you out there who scoff at the metaverse as another techno… Read More “Top Auto Makers Will Replace Car Salesmen With This New Feature”

Romania Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca presented to the World his “new honorary adviser”, which is an artificial intelligence assistant called “Ion”, whom the prime minister hailed as the first-of-its-kind in the World. Ion, which has been developed by Romanian researchers, will have the main task of scanning the social networks and then informing the government “in real time of Romanians’ proposals and wishes”, said Ciuca on Wednesday. The prime minister said that his entourage’s latest member, which is a mirror-like structure that has a beeping interface, has been marked “an international firs… Read More “An AI to run the government? Romanian PM gets AI adviser ‘Ion’ to tell him what people want”

By David Brunnstrom and Kirsty Needham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Australia has assured Washington that U.S. technology will be safe under a plan to supply it with nuclear-powered submarines in a tripartite deal also including Britain, Canberra’s ambassador to the United States said on Thursday. Speaking to a U.S. think tank, Arthur Sinodinos also said that when details of the so-called AUKUS submarine deal are announced in mid-March, people would see there had been a “genuine trilateral solution.” Under the AUKUS deal announced in 2021 the United States and Britain agreed to provide Australia wit… Read More “Australia has assured US its technology is safe in submarine deal -envoy”

INDIANAPOLIS — The Chiefs are less than three weeks removed from celebrating a second title in four years, but you didn’t think that would make them immune to a little drama, right? The most intriguing kind, too: self-inflicted. The Super Bowl champions were on the receiving end of a proverbial slap on the wrist from their own players this week, when the NFL Players Association released the results of an inaugural player survey. In the collection of anonymous responses, the Chiefs ranked 29th among the league’s 32 teams in a report card compiled of eight criteria — treatment of families, food … Read More “Sam McDowell: The Chiefs are Super Bowl champs, but players delivered ownership a message: Pony up”

By bne IntelliNews Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca introduced his new ‘honorary adviser”, an AI assistant called Ion, on March 1. Ciuca said in a video presentation that Ion is the first assistant of its kind. Ion’s primary function is to scan social media platforms to provide the government with real-time information on what the population want. ‘Hi, you gave me life and my role is now to represent you, like a mirror,” Ion said as he was presented, a video from the presentation showed. “What should I know about Romania?” the AI assistant added. According to the prime minister, Ion will … Read More “Romanian PM introduces ’s first AI government adviser”

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – An American computer scientist on Thursday urged the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court to rule he is entitled to patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system, in a landmark case about whether AI can own patent rights. Stephen Thaler wants to be granted two patents in the UK over inventions he says were devised by his “creativity machine” called DABUS. His attempt to register the patents was refused on the grounds that the inventor must be a human or a company, rather than a machine. Thaler’s lawyer Robert Jehan told the Supreme Court in Lon… Read More “UK Supreme Court hears landmark patent case over AI “inventor””

By Luc Olinga The billionaire entrepreneur and staunch supporter of artificial intelligence calls for regulation of this revolutionary new technology. Elon Musk feels a little guilty. Guilty of pushing artificial intelligence to develop at a speed that caught regulators, and society as a whole, off guard. On November 30, the unveiling of the ChatGPT chatbot showed consumers around the World that AI had made great strides and that a new era was beginning for this technology, that some are presenting as the beginning of a paradigm shift. ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by the startup OpenAI. It r… Read More “Elon Musk Feels a Little Guilty”