Traffic, jammed in The Economist 12 October 2019
The penny is dropping on driverless cars. This is a nicely succinct piece about the slow progress...
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Category: AI
Supercomputer simulates key brain centre in real time by Edd Gent in NewScientist 12 October 2019
Sailing into new computing waters. Neuromorphic computing is seen as potentially fertile territory...
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Who needs emotions edited by J-M Fellous and MA Arbib 2005
An unemotional analysis of robot emotions. The book consists of a series of papers by various...
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AI beats professionals at six-player poker by Douglas Heaven in Nature 18 July 2019
Forget the ‘tell’: poker is just another game for AI. A collaborative effort between Facebook and...
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Emotions- from brain to robot by MA Arbib and J-M Fellous in Trends in Cognitive Sciences 12 December 2004
Emotions are critical for action selection in both humans and robots. It is tempting to think that...
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Machines like me by Ian McEwan, 2019
Stories involving conscious robots can be quite unsettling. Whilst the premises upon which the...
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The billion-dollar bet to reach human-level AI by Richard Waters in FT 5 August 2019
OpenAI bets big computing is the answer to artificial general intelligence. OpenAI’s goal is to...
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Coders by Clive Thompson 2019
A classic deconstruction of a personality type. This is the fast-paced story of who, what, when...
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The AI does not hate you by Tom Chivers 2019
Thinking AI might be an existential threat makes sense. Chivers’ book looks at the way that a...
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Machines see differently by Linda Geddes in NewScientist 18 May 2019
Getting machines to see more like humans. Computer science is making progress in reducing AI’s...
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Fallible machines and fallible humans by Robert Wright in Straits Times 16 April 2019
Safe automation and safe AI still has a long way to go. This is yet another article amongst a...
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Hello world by Hannah Fry 2018
Accessible introduction to the use of algorithms in everyday life. Fry’s book walks its reader...
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Fei-Fei Li and Yuval Noah Harari in conversation on The Coming AI Upheaval 24 April 2019
No conclusions reached but a good airing of the problem. The case for the prosecution (Harari)...
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One of these is a power drill by Chris Baraniuk in NewScientist 270419
AI uses one method to do object recognition; humans use two. Everyone is familiar with the AI...
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The creativity code by Marcus du Sautoy 2019
An ode to the beauty of mathematics as well as a discussion of AI and creativity. The author does...
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In our own image by George Zarkadakis 2015
A comprehensive and accessible run-through of all matters AI-related. The book covers a lot of...
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The festival of AI and emerging technology by CogX 10-12 June 2019
500 speakers over three days. CogX produces great daily newsflow on trends and events in AI. They...
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How AI Will Go Out Of Control According To 52 Experts by CBInsights 19 February 2019
Give yourself a cheap thrill reading about AI’s potential to wipe us out. This is a wonderful...
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Robots that look after grandma in The Economist 16 February 2019
Demand for multi-purpose robots is rising, unlike supply. Two recent research studies have...
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Algorithms are just too easy a bogeyman for volatile markets by David Siegel in FT 22 January 2019
Algorithmic thinking has its place. Whilst the article was written for a financial audience, it...
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