Research sheds fresh light on feats of social insects. There is a growing tendency to look at the...
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Introducing the next big chapter in AI development. It is easy to be carried away with today’s...
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The stochastic nature of neuronal networks in decision making. An intriguing experiment shows that...
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Hippocampus needed for consolidation of novel-object memories. Sawangjit et al start with the...
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Yet another example of intelligence from the New Caledonian crow. A favourite for researchers, New...
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Attention needed for consciousness, not vice versa. Is attention synonymous with consciousness?...
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How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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Could equilibrium propagation be nature’s way of doing backpropagation? This paper is absolutely...
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AIs can now understand, or at least read, other AIs’ minds. DeepMind’s new Theory of Mind-net AI...
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Interesting new research on how to effect few-shot learning. AI researchers are making progress in...
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Basic and non-basic emotions: more research needed. This is a thought-provoking paper on the state...
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Turning the ego and the id upside down. Solms rests his theory on the observation that...
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The many different facets of the unconscious mind. In a wide-ranging analysis, the authors...
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Excellent on the nature of consciousness. Not convinced about the purpose. Oakley and Halligan...
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DeepMind turns its attention to AI safety. The folks at DeepMind are seeking to contribute to AI...
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Did theory of mind start here, or somewhere like it? Haroush and Williams derive some interesting...
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AlphaGo Zero needs no human training at all. AlphaGo Zero is the latest variant of AlphaGo. It has...
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Ravens better than 4-year-old children at planning. In a fascinating set of experiments, Kabadayi...
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