Apes adopt orphans in display of altruism by Rhys Blakely in The Times 19 March 2021
Bonobos empathise, just like us. Researchers have now discovered rare instances of female bonobos...
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year by Catherine Clifford on CNBC 17 March 2021
AI shows us the way towards a universal basic income. We have still not yet grasped that the pace...
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Machine in the ghost by Ed Simon in Aeon 5 February 2021
What price religion when machines have consciousness? It turns out that the answer may not be...
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Chimpanzees seem to speak in sentences of three or more calls by Michael Marshall in New Scientist 20 February 2021
We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
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Talk to the animals by Edd Gent in New Scientist 19 December 2020
AI is well suited to interpreting animal communications. It is surprising that nobody thought of...
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The new grand bargain in The Economist 21 November 2020
Geopolitics will become geotechnics. The Economist points out that increasingly countries are...
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Dream power by Erik Hoel in New Scientist 7 November 2020
An interesting theory on the meaning of dreams. We know broadly what happens in the brain when we...
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Holding on to job becomes harder as robots get a grip by Tom Knowles in The Times 20 November 2020
Seriously dexterous robots are right around the corner. It was only a matter of time before...
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AI bot becomes therapist for the lonely by Emma Yeomans in The Times 3 November 2020
Chatbots get better and better. Mitsuku, otherwise known as Kuki, is a chatbot with a difference....
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Can lab-grown brains become conscious by Sara Reardon in Nature 27 October 2020
Neuroscience’s definition of consciousness is in a complete muddle. Research labs are now...
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Wine and bottles in The Economist 17 October 2020
The wine trade confirms that thought trumps language. There are those who say that language is the...
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Cognition all the way down by Michael Levin and Daniel Dennett at aeon.co 13 October 2020
Agency is on a continuum of evolutionary outcomes. Agency is not a distinct category separated...
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Ex-antics in The Economist 10 October 2020
Tech antitrust action is a slow-burning fuse. America’s Department of Justice is taking Google to...
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Match and mix in The Economist 3 October 2020
Human beings are a lot more diverse than you first thought. It turns out that some hybrid species...
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Walking with robots in The Economist 29 August 2020
Mobile robots are moving forwards quickly. Boston Dynamics is transforming the ability of robots...
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Despite exam fiasco, algorithms have their place by Stephen Bush in The Times 18 August 2020
At last, sensible commentary on the A-level results jamboree. The way the commentariat has been...
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The political battle with Big Tech by Robert Colvile in Sunday Times 21 June 2020
Big Tech is making a bad political miscalculation. The British government tried in vain to set up...
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Expression of doubt by Douglas Heaven in Nature 27 February 2020
Academia and commercial AI go their separate ways on emotions. Several AI companies are pressing...
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Who invented the ABCs? by Colin Barras in NewScientist 8 February 2020
It’s an accident that we use the alphabet. John Darnell et al published a landmark paper in 2006....
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A new trinity in The Economist 4 January 2020
AI training is more human than artificial. In a technology report devoted to China, The Economist...
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