DeepMind AI topples experts at complex game Stratego by Anil Ananthaswamy in Nature 1 December 2022
Artificial superintelligence will help solve humankind’s intractable problems and it’s being built...
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Category: AI
AIs can outperform humans when instructed to think step by step by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 5 November 2022
Chain-of-thought prompting could represent a conceptual breakthrough in AI research. Researchers...
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Mind-reading AI decodes thoughts from brain scans by Alex Wilkins in New Scientist 22 October 2022
Viewing brain scans now allows us to read minds. Researchers have successfully trained algorithms...
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A cryin’, talkin’, sleepin’, walkin’, livin’ doll in The Economist 12 November 2022
Robotics design is advancing rapidly. The car manufacturing industry has been using robots for...
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High-tech competition with China should be focus by John M Donnelly on Roll Call 12 September 2022
New report advocates urgent US strategy to blunt Chinese military aggression. Eric Schmidt, the...
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Ukraine may have developed killer robots by David Hambling in the New Scientist 12 November 2022
What’s new? Autonomous weapon systems. Not really. Apparently, Ukraine is using drones with visual...
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A third of scientists fear judgment day from robots by Rhys Blakeley in The Times 29 September 2022
We must wake up and ensure that advanced AI serves human needs. A recent survey has found that...
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AI can test 100 years of climate policy in seconds by Jeremy Hsu in New Scientist 24 September 2022
AI can now marry climate change policy proposals with human interaction. Researchers have made...
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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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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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