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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AI beats professionals at six-player poker by Douglas Heaven in Nature 18 July 2019
Forget the ‘tell’: poker is just another game for AI. A collaborative effort between Facebook and...
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The billion-dollar bet to reach human-level AI by Richard Waters in FT 5 August 2019
OpenAI bets big computing is the answer to artificial general intelligence. OpenAI’s goal is to...
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Hidden consciousness by Helen Thomson in NewScientist 29 June 2019
Is the thalamus at the heart of consciousness? There is a growing understanding of those who can...
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Bang the rocks together, guys in The Economist 29 June 2019
Monkeys are using tools really intelligently. New research discovers that wild bearded capuchins...
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Inside the mind’s eye by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 8 June 2019
People with amazingly clear mental images. Cossins writes about those people with the unusual...
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Innovative chimpanzees by Michael Marshall in NewScientist 25 May 2019
Imitation vs reasoning in chimpanzees. Scientists continue to believe that animals are not...
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Machines see differently by Linda Geddes in NewScientist 18 May 2019
Getting machines to see more like humans. Computer science is making progress in reducing AI’s...
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Fallible machines and fallible humans by Robert Wright in Straits Times 16 April 2019
Safe automation and safe AI still has a long way to go. This is yet another article amongst a...
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