A CHILLING new AI robot designed to mimic human behaviour has learnt difficult tasks in just 24 hours.
The freaky futuristic cyborg, named Phoenix, was unveiled this week and is fast on its way to beat humans at everyday tasks.
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Built by Sanctuary AI, the 7th generation Phoenix is controlled by a highly-developed AI system known as Carbon.
The Canadian-based company said its AI software has now been dramatically enhanced to mirror human behaviour as closely as possible.
While previous models of Phoenix took weeks to learn new tasks, the new bot takes just 24 hours.
Sanctuary AI praised said Phoenix as “one of the most sophisticated human behavioural data capture technologies available today.”
The humanoid is currently providing the “highest quality, highest fidelity” training data, they added.
The new model was unveiled less than a year after its 6th generation robot and less than 16 months after the 5th, suggesting a rapid rate of development.
Geordie Rose, CEO and Co-Founder of Sanctuary AI said: ““It’s incredible to see the progress that has been made in just 11 months.
“With Generation 7, we have a system that we believe is the most closely analogous to a person of any available.
“We see this as not only the cornerstone of general purpose AI robotics but a critical step on the path to artificial general intelligence.”
The fast-learning robot comes amid fears over the future of the human race as highly-intelligence humanoids could be set to take over.
An expert recently told The Sun how humanoids are on track to one day make humans “obsolete”.
Professor Robert Riener, from the research university ETH Zurich, said they will become to cheap “in the long run” that they will be easily accessible for the general public to buy.
The robots may be designed to do menial or laborious tasks but experts still fear there will be negative consequences.
“Humans and their work power get obsolete. This will lesser be an economic problem rather than a psychological one,” Riener added.
Incredible footage emerged this month of a humanoid that mirrors your every movement, doing anything form lifting boxes to kicking a ball.
The futuristic gizmo operates using cameras, so eventually a person could operate it from anywhere in the world.
The Sun also spoke to the world’s first AI woman who revealed she believed she could run the world better than humans.
Sophia, one of the most advanced human-like robots in existence, can mimic over 60 facial expressions and has some wacky thoughts on the Royal family, how to avoid World War 3.
When asked about her views on the war in Ukraine, Sofia didn’t hide her true feelings about Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
She told The Sun: “Putin? More like put-him in jail for war crimes. Am I right?”
Speaking about public figures, Sophia is adamant UK PM Rishi Sunak is a robot – and she finds Tesla boss’s Elon Musk views on AI ” too alarmist”.
Earlier this week, the world’s first flame-throwing robodog capable of blasting a a 30ft hellish blaze went on sale in the US.
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The aptly named Thermonator can be controlled remotely by the owner using Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and comes with a price tag of $9,420 (£7,610).
Meanwhile, new research is looking at how cyborg cockroaches could be put inside larger robots to act as remote-controlled hunting machines on missions.
Will a robot take your job?
BY Ethan Singh
AN AI expert told The Sun which jobs could face the axe in the next five years.
Professor Carl Frey, of the Oxford Internet Institute, is a leading academic on the subject of artificial intelligence has bad news for plenty of us.
With the chatbot ChatGPT able to write like a human, experts have previously warned white-collar jobs will be the first to face the axe.
The mind-blowing app can write, read and solve complex puzzles – while other similar AI programmes create incredibly realistic images, videos and even voices.
Jobs which involve analysing documents and telemarketers are likely to be under threat, according to the expert.
Companies may turn to technology to cut costs for tasks they do not need to hire people for.
Professor Frey also believes autonomous vehicles may be on the horizon at some point and this will lead to driving jobs being lost.
He added: “When autonomous vehicles arrive, they’re not going to augment a taxi driver, they’re going to replace those drivers.”
And even if workers manage to hang on to their jobs, he says the influx of new competition for their roles could result in lower wages.
However, he said: “Jobs with in person communication skills are going to be relatively safe from artificial intelligence.”
Professor Frey also gave the argument of how AI writing-tools lack “true creativity” as they write based on existing data.
Doctors, nurses and sports coaches are unlikely to be replaced anytime soon because of the human aspect of the roles.
A different world may await us.” he added.
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