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Robota review – machines on the march in next-gen version of sci-fi classic

Schwarzman Centre, OxfordHeadlong’s take on Karel Čapek’s 1920 tale of romance and robots is rife with timely debates about tech’s threat but at times the philosophical discussions drag onIf our world is currently thinking through the brave new future of generative AI and super intelligence, Karel Čapek’s 1920 play RUR: Rossum’s Universal Robots proves the notion of robot consciousness and rebellion is not a new anxiety. So does Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which Čapek’s drama resembles in...

Telstra CEO says executive bonuses to be reviewed after nationwide outage – video

Returning from annual leave, Telstra chief executive Vicki Brady has faced a barrage of questions for the first time since the company's nationwide outage on Wednesday affected train services, payment systems and triple zero calls. Brady says the failure was not the result of job restructuring, insisting that 'people and processes worked as they should have'. She said Telstra would conduct a thorough investigation into the software glitch behind the outage and review executive bonuses in...

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Malaysia’s Anwar to Debut an AI Double That Sounds Just Like Him

Malaysia’s Anwar to Debut an AI Double That Sounds Just Like Him Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is about to do something very few heads of government have done: send an artificial intelligence version of himself out to meet the public. The avatar has been built by Malaysian digital infrastructure firm Zetrix AI Bhd. and is called PMX AI, a nod to Ibrahim’s place as the country’s 10th prime minister. It’s expected to make its debut within days, according to the prime minister’s office.