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Ride-sharing firm Uber has suspended its test of self-driving cars in San Francisco after regulators revoked the registration of the vehicles. Passengers had recently been given the option of a booking a self-driving vehicle.. But authorities had threatened legal action if Uber did not obtain a special permit to test the cars. Uber argues that because they came with a safety driver and are not fully autonomous, the permit was not needed. "We're now looking at where we can redeploy these cars, but remain 100% committed to California and will be redoubling our efforts to develop workable statewide rules," Uber said. San Francisco is Uber's second trial city for the new technology. In Pittsburgh, the company has been running its driverless trial since September and has not required special permits. Not yet fully autonomous Although the cars are promoted as "self-driving", they must constantly be monitored by an actual driver who can take control any time the ...

Founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, revealed in January this year that he aimed to build a fully-functional, artificial intelligence (AI) system to help run his home and help him with his work, and in just under 12 months, he has achieved his goal. After around 100 hours of work over the course of the year, Zuckerberg has spent this week showing off his AI-powered personal assistant inspired by Jarvis, the virtual assistant designed by Tony Stark in Marvel’s Iron Man. “So far this year, I’ve built a simple AI that I can talk to on my phone and computer, that can control my home, including lights, temperature, appliances, music and security, that learns my tastes and patterns, that can learn new words and concepts, and that can even entertain Max,” he wrote in a blog post. “It uses several artificial intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, speech recognition, face recognition, and reinforcement learning, written in Python, PHP and Objective C.” ...