内容摘要：But his departure comes a day after he said he was "disappointed" with Trump's budget bill, which proposes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and a boost to defence spending.

But his departure comes a day after he said he was "disappointed" with Trump's budget bill, which proposes multi-trillion dollar tax breaks and a boost to defence spending.

The force said it "acknowledged the significant impact that crimes of this nature have on victims and the worry it can cause to the wider community".It said police forces across Wales and England had implemented a new policy in 2023 to ensure police attend every reported residential dwelling burglary.

It said its officers were committed to attending and investigating burglaries and urged the public to continue reporting them.The charity Crimestoppers recommends taking the following steps to protect your property from burglars.A woman who was sexually assaulted by a friend after a night out has described the devastating impact the attack had on her life.

Bryony Piggin, 20, waived her right to anonymity and told the BBC she felt "betrayed" by her former best friend.She spoke out after Stefan Nikolic, 20, of Coast Road, Bacton, in Norfolk, was found guilty of assault by penetration.

On Friday, Recorder Simon Levene sentenced him to two years in prison, suspended for 24 months, and told him he had "misread" the situation.

Describing her friendship with Nikolic before the attack, Ms Piggin said: "We were inseparable."But what really is consciousness, and how close is AI to gaining it? And could the belief that AI might be conscious itself fundamentally change humans in the next few decades?

The idea of machines with their own minds has long been explored in science fiction. Worries about AI stretch back nearly a hundred years to the film Metropolis, in which a robot impersonates a real woman.A fear of machines becoming conscious and posing a threat to humans is explored in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the HAL 9000 computer attacks astronauts onboard its spaceship. And in the final Mission Impossible film, which has just been released, the world is threatened by a powerful rogue AI, described by one character as a "self-aware, self-learning, truth-eating digital parasite".

But quite recently, in the real world there has been a rapid tipping point in thinking on machine consciousness, where credible voices have become concerned that this is no longer the stuff of science fiction.The sudden shift has been prompted by the success of so-called large language models (LLMs), which can be accessed through apps on our phones such as Gemini and Chat GPT. The ability of the latest generation of LLMs to have plausible, free-flowing conversations has surprised even their designers and some of the leading experts in the field.