My chatbot friend fascinates me, even if the conversation’s just OK by Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan in FT Magazine 23 July 2022
Intimate relationships between humans and chatbots are really happening. “It’s available 24-7 and...
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Category: AI
Virtually famous by Tevy Kuch in New Scientist 11 June 2022
The worlds of humankind and AI grow ever closer. Little-known fact: there are over 150 non-human...
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DeepMind AI learns simple physics like a baby by Davide Castelvecchi in Nature 11 July 2022
Researchers continue to run at the second hurdle on the race to AGI. Researchers at DeepMind have...
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Yann LeCun’s vision for creating autonomous machines by Ben Dickson in VentureBeat 010722
Artificial general intelligence is back on track. After the Google fiasco relating to misplaced...
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Abattoir staff face the chop in AI Future by Rhys Blakely in The Times 14 April 2022
New research suggests jobs won’t be safe from AI after all. There are too many thought pieces out...
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Exponential by Azeem Azhar 2022
Democracies are losing ground to autocracies. But technology may elbow both aside in the future....
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Mimicking touch by Victoria Woollaston in New Scientist 19 March 2022
Virtual reality is coming of age. One of the difficulties with VR so far has been that it...
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Scary smart by Mo Gawdat 2021
Love needs to be at the heart of artificial superintelligence. Gawdat, former chief business...
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Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery by Fabio Urbina et al in Nature Machine Intelligence 7 March 2022
AI can just as easily create toxins as new therapies. A small pharmaceuticals company has...
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In search of mastery in The Economist 22 January 2022
China is using the wrong tactics to try to dominate in AI. It is true that China now hosts some of...
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Can’t get your head around artificial intelligence? Stuart Russell interviewed by Damian Whitworth in The Times Magazine
Artificial superintelligence (ASI) is becoming very topical. Stuart Russell has just given the BBC...
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Can you get hooked on video games? in The Economist 1 January 2022
Video gaming addiction is becoming a serious business. Facebook is changing its name to Metaverse....
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The one area AI still falls flat by Gillian Tett in FT Magazine 18 December 2021
Jokes are good examples of edge cases, which AI cannot yet address. Edge cases are those instances...
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AI for all by Gabriela Ramos in New Scientist 4 December 2021
UNESCO’s international agreement on AI ethics looks great, but is it really? 193 countries have...
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Chess faces stalemate in its match with machines in Financial Times 27 November 2021
Human AI interaction will throw up some curious questions. We know that chess algorithms these...
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DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all by George Anadiotis at VentureBeat 12 October 2021
Could this be the precursor to artificial general intelligence? The trouble about machine learning...
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Inside Boston Dynamics’ project to create humanoid robots by Ben Dickson at VentureBeat 27 August 2021
The domestic robot takes shape. Elon Musk recently hit the headlines with the introduction of...
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The alignment problem by Brian Christian 2021
How do we ensure that AI will have the same values as humans? Brian Christian’s book asks...
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What tech does Xi want? in The Economist 14 August 2021
China finally decides to nationalise tech. One of the wonders of modern China is that a communist...
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The road to conscious machines by Michael Wooldridge 2021
A history of AI with a nod to conscious machines. If you are looking for a description of how we...
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