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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Category: TSR ARTICLES
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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AI-designed drug to start human trials for first time in Financial Times 31 January 2020
AI achieves another breakthrough. For some time now, AI has helped identify and crank through...
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Fly atlas in The Economist 25 January 2020
The human connectome is within reach. Well, in the next few decades at any rate. Researchers have...
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Robots that come alive in The Economist 18 January 2020
We can now manufacture biorobots from scratch. You have heard of genetic engineering as the...
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Machine learning poses significant risks that need to be managed by Mark Yallop in FT 24 December 2019
Algorithms in capital markets trading are changing shape. Watch out. In this clear insight on...
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How to think about evolution by Graham Lawton in NewScientist 14 December 2019
The difference between frequency and adaptation in evolution. In a neat little series giving...
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Human origins: Eden? in The Economist 2 November 2019
Is beautiful Botswana the home of Mitochondrial Eve? A group of researchers have concluded that it...
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Traffic, jammed in The Economist 12 October 2019
The penny is dropping on driverless cars. This is a nicely succinct piece about the slow progress...
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Supercomputer simulates key brain centre in real time by Edd Gent in NewScientist 12 October 2019
Sailing into new computing waters. Neuromorphic computing is seen as potentially fertile territory...
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Brain work by Neil Savage in Nature 17 October 2019
Brain research is taking off. There is now a respectable number of substantial national and...
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