Nietzsche and the machines by Sebastian Sunday Greve in The Philosopher’s Magazine 4 June 2021
We need to think about how we and advanced AI are going to live together. The thrust of Greve’s...
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Category: TSR ARTICLES
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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Internal affairs by Caroline Williams in New Scientist 9 July 2022
Inner speech and consciousness are not the same thing. We are (almost) all familiar with the voice...
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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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Butterflies of the soul in The Economist 2 July 2022
Neuroscience might come to the rescue of computer science once again. Over the last 20 years or...
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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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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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Special brain cells may signal when to start a new memory by Clare Wilson in New Scientists 12 March 2022
The brain continues to give up its secrets. We have a fair idea as to how memories are stored in...
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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Early man’s greatest invention? The handle by Kaya Burgess in The Times 16 March 2022
Is the handle better than fire and the wheel? There is always going to be a debate as to which of...
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Playing with fire by Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater in New Scientist 26 March 2022
Strange how we still cannot agree on the origins of language. The authors have just brought out a...
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The nature of consciousness experiments found to largely determine their results by Tel-Aviv University 16 March 2022
Consciousness experiments appear to be designed to support the theory they are testing....
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Virtual reality is as real as physical reality, but just different by Richard Webb interviewing David Chalmers in New Scientist 29 January 2022
Reality is reality is reality. The most important point in Chalmers’ new book is that what we...
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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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Chimps crack the secret of evolution by Tom Whipple in The Times 25 January 2022
Innovation by non-human animals is really rare. Researchers have discovered two chimpanzee...
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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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Animal magic by Sam Wong in News Scientist 18 December 2021
Jays are not so smart after all. Jays are pretty good at seeing through the cups-and-balls trick....
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