Mother tongue by Andrea Valentino in New Scientist 26 November 2022
We will never know how and when language emerged but we are getting closer. You’ll have heard of...
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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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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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Bumblebees have a ball by Corryn Wetzel in New Scientist 29 October 2022
Bees have emotions too. Who’d have thunk? Researchers have successfully introduced bumblebees to...
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Ants have evolved to farm plants on at least 15 separate occasions by Michael Le Page in New Scientist 19 November 2022
Ants are agriculturalists but that doesn’t mean they possess all the tricks humans have got....
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Tortoise talk proves a turtle surprise by Kaya Burgess in The Times 22 November 2022
The ancestors of language look to be very widespread. Researchers have been considering the sounds...
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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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More equal than others in The Economist 12 November 2022
Do social animals possess consciousness? Plenty of animals live in groups. But some groups are...
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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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Modelling the brain Fiat Lux in The Economist 15 October 2022
Dr Moreau is born again. For those of you who did not read HG Wells’ The island of Dr Moreau, it...
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Dozens of turtle species use vocal sounds to communicate by Christa Leste-Lasserre in New Scientist 29 October 2022
The origins of language go back 400 million years. Recent research has established that many...
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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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The search for Ancestor X by Colin Barras in New Scientist 3 September 2022
Homo sapiens did not simply spring from a single ancestor. It is beginning to look like H....
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Artificial neuron swaps dopamine with rat brain cells by Alex Wilkins in New Scientist 13 August 2022
Researchers have now created artificial neurons that can be triggered by neurotransmitters. So far...
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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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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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