In the book, “Priority Technologies,” MIT faculty analyze how the U.S. can move ahead in multiple key industrial sectors — semiconductors, biotechnology, critical minerals, drones, quantum computing, and advanced manufacturing — to drive the economy and support national security.

AI systems ‘can learn to seek revenge’ because they are able to grasp reciprocating verbal violence when exposed to conflict, new research from Lancaster University shows.

In short, AI can give as good as it gets and, eventually, go one step further.

Published in the journal of Pragmatics, the study ‘Can ChatGPT reciprocate impoliteness? The Al moral dilemma’, is authored by Dr Vittorio Tantucci and Prof Jonathan Culpeper, both from Lancaster University.

The University of Manchester has been awarded a third Milestone Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award honours significant technical achievement for the invention of ‘Manchester Code’ in 1948-1949, still used today in communications to Voyager 1 and 2 probes and everyday items like RFID card readers and TV remotes.