BBC WORLD HOT NEWS. Hezbollah leader's death a 'historic turning point', Netanyahu says, as Iran vows revenge Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel has "settled the score" with the killing of Hassan Nasrallah, as Iran vows his death "will not go unavenged".

 

At least 15 killed in latest Israeli strikes, Lebanese media reportspublished at 07:20 British Summer T

Some more details are emerging on the latest Israeli strikes carried out in Lebanon.

Local media reports that at least six people have been killed in the south of the country and a further nine in the Bekaa Valley - a Hezbollah stronghold in north-eastern Lebanon.

The Arabic newspaper An-Nahar says that three people were killed in the southern Lebanon town of Anquon with another three killed in other locations across the southern area of Nabatieh.

In a separate report, the newspaper says nine members of a Syrian family - including children and the mother, who was Lebanese - were killed in the Bekaa Valley region.

IDF says it has intercepted a drone from the Red Seapublished at 06:51 British Summer 

As well as cross-border fire at Israel's northern border, it says it's also facing threats from the south.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said within the last hour that it intercepted a drone coming across the Red Sea, to the south of the country.

Yesterday, they also said they intercepted a missile fired from Yemen by the Houthis - an Iranian-backed rebel group which considers Israel an enemy.

The Reuters and AFP news agencies reported that yesterday's missile had been timed with the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the airport.

Israeli PM hails 'historic turning point' after Nasrallah's death - here's the latestpublished at 05:44 British Summer Time

Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its long-standing leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had been killed after intense Israeli air strikes on Lebanon.

Nasrallah's death is a major escalation in Israel's war with the Lebanese militant group, BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner writes, which has potentially brought the region a step closer to even wider conflict.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, vowed Nasrallah's death would "not go unavenged". Iran, which has backed Hezbollah both financially and militarily, declared several days of public mourning, as did Lebanon and Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Nasrallah's death, which came after Israel on Friday attacked what it said was Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Beirut, as a "historic turning point". He said that by killing Nasrallah, Israel had "settled the score".

US President Joe Biden said Nasrallah's death was a "measure of justice" for his victims, but that Washington would keep working to de-escalate the conflict. "It's time for a ceasefire now," he told reporters.

Meanwhile, Israel's military says it carried out "dozens" of raids on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the past few hours.

We'll continue to bring you the latest developments and analysis, so stay with us.

'Dozens' of Hezbollah targets attacked - IDFpublished at 05:25 British Summer Timsrael's military says it carried out dozens of raids on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in the past few hours.

In a statement posted on Telegram on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said the targets included projectile launchers aimed toward Israel.

The strikes targeted "buildings where weapons and military structures of the organisation were stored," according to the statement.

Israel has attacked "hundreds" of Hezbollah targets in the last day, it added.

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What is AI

AI Means artificial intelligence, 

Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Examples of AI applications include expert systems, natural language processing (NLP), speech recognition and machine vision.

As the hype around AI has accelerated, vendors have scrambled to promote how their products and services incorporate it. Often, what they refer to as "AI" is a well-established technology such as machine learning.

AI requires specialized hardware and software for writing and training machine learning algorithms. No single programming language is used exclusively in AI, but Python, R, Java, C++ and Julia are all popular languages among AI developers.

How does AI work?

In general, AI systems work by ingesting large amounts of labeled training data, analyzing that data for correlations and patterns, and using these patterns to make predictions about future states.

For example, an AI chatbot that is fed examples of text can learn to generate lifelike exchanges with people, and an image recognition tool can learn to identify and describe objects in images by reviewing millions of examples. Generative AI techniques, which have advanced rapidly over the past few years, can create realistic text, images, music and other media.

Programming AI systems focuses on cognitive skills such as the following:

• Learning. This aspect of AI programming involves acquiring data and creating rules, known as algorithms, to transform it into actionable information. These algorithms provide computing devices with step-by-step instructions for completing specific tasks.
• Reasoning. This aspect involves choosing the right algorithm to reach a desired outcome.
• Self-correction. This aspect involves algorithms continuously learning and tuning themselves to provide the most accurate results possible.
• Creativity. This aspect uses neural networks, rule-based systems, statistical methods and other AI techniques to generate new images, text, music, ideas and so on.

Why is AI important?

AI is important for its potential to change how we live, work and play. It has been effectively used in business to automate tasks traditionally done by humans, including customer service, lead generation, fraud detection and quality control.

In a number of areas, AI can perform tasks more efficiently and accurately than humans. It is especially useful for repetitive, detail-oriented tasks such as analyzing large numbers of legal documents to ensure relevant fields are properly filled in. AI's ability to process massive data sets gives enterprises insights into their operations they might not otherwise have noticed. The rapidly expanding array of generative AI tools is also becoming important in fields ranging from education to marketing to product design.

Advances in AI techniques have not only helped fuel an explosion in efficiency, but also opened the door to entirely new business opportunities for some larger enterprises. Prior to the current wave of AI, for example, it would have been hard to imagine using computer software to connect riders to taxis on demand, yet Uber has become a Fortune 500 company by doing just that.

AI has become central to many of today's largest and most successful companies, including Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft and Meta, which use AI to improve their operations and outpace competitors. At Alphabet subsidiary Google, for example, AI is central to its eponymous search engine, and self-driving car company Waymo began as an Alphabet division. The Google Brain research lab also invented the transformer architecture that underpins recent NLP breakthroughs such as OpenAI's ChatGPT.