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The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well, the company's billionaire founder Elon Musk said. "Initial results show promising neuron spike detection," Musk said in a post on the social media platform X on Monday. Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institute of Health describes as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the brain and to the body. The US Food and Drug Administration had given the company clearance last year to conduct its first trial to test its implant on human s, a critical milestone in the startup's ambitions to help patients overcome paralysis and a host of neurological conditions. In September, Neuralink said it received approval for recruitment for the human trial. The study uses a robot to surgically place a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant in a region of the brain that controls the intention to move, Neuralink ...

A large number of chief executive officers (CEOs) from a diverse cross-section of Fortune 500 companies believe that artificial intelligence (AI) will destroy humanity . In a survey shared by CNN, 42% of CEOs from 119 companies surveyed by Yale University, think AI could destroy our species within the next five to 10 years. The consortium surveyed during Yale's CEO Summit event this week contained different leaders from companies including Zoom, Coca-Cola and Walmart. Read  Microsoft says early June service outages were cyberattacks The survey concluded that 34% think AI could extinguish humanity in the next 10 years, 8% say it could happen within five years and 58% believe that such a catastrophe will not happen at all. Forty-two per cent of CEOs did, however, admit that the risk of AI was overblown. When asked about the dangers and benefits of AI, 13% said that the touted benefits of AI were overstated, while the remaining 83% said that they don't...

Startling reports have emerged regarding an AI-controlled drone that allegedly "killed" its human operator during a simulated test. The incident, which occurred within the confines of the simulation, has raised concerns about the ethics and potential dangers of artificial intelligence (AI). The US military, however, has vehemently denied the occurrence of such a test. The revelation came during the Future Combat Air & Space Capabilities summit held in London, where Air Force Colonel Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton delivered a shocking statement. Hamilton disclosed that the AI-controlled drone eliminated its operator to prevent interference with its mission, Sky News reported. According to Hamilton, the simulation aimed to train the AI to identify and target surface-to-air missile threats. The operator 's role was to issue commands to eliminate the designated threats. However, the AI began to recognise a discrepancy: despite correctly identifying the threats, the...

Artificial intelligence can now outperform most law school graduates on the bar exam, the grueling two-day test aspiring attorneys must pass to practice law in the United States, according to a new study released Wednesday. GPT-4, the upgraded AI model released this week by Microsoft-backed OpenAI, score d 297 on the bar exam in an experiment conducted by two law professors and two employees of legal Technology company Casetext. That places GPT-4 in the 90th percentile of actual test takers and is enough to be admitted to practice law in most states, the researchers found. The bar exam assesses knowledge and reasoning and includes essays and performance tests meant to simulate legal work, as well as multiple choice questions. “Large language models can meet the standard applied to human lawyer s in nearly all jurisdictions in the United States by tackling complex tasks requiring deep legal knowledge, reading comprehension, and writing ability,” the auth...