Bigger brain cells work better by Jessica Hamzelou in NewScientist 5 May 2018
Bigger is better after all. In short, people with bigger, faster neurons have higher IQs, think...
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Category: TSR ARTICLES
Finger points to earlier Africa exit by Andy Coghlan in NewScientist 14 April 2018
Yet another datapoint re-writing human history. Researchers have discovered a single finger bone...
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The workings of a dog’s mind by Chris Baraniuk in NewScientist 7 April 2018
Not much difference between your dog and Pepper. Researchers successfully track the neural...
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AI-spy in The Economist 31 March 2018
AI will boost productivity but it’s not all good news. This week, The Economist has devoted a...
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A Skinner box for software in The Economist 24 March 2018
The Turing box may offer a standardised method of testing AI. A team of researchers has devised a...
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Four funny ways AI has outsmarted us by Chelsea Whyte in NewScientist 24 March 2018
Funny algorithms make a serious point. NewScientist reports on an amusing collection of algorithms...
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The Shallowness of Google Translate by Douglas Hofstadter in The Antlantic 30 January 2018
Understanding the point about understanding the point. We are all familiar with the point that...
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Wave therapy by Helen Thomson in Nature 1 March 2018
What neuronal oscillations, or brainwaves, do and do not do. Wave therapy is a handy update on the...
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Theory of a machine’s mind by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 3 March 2018
AIs can now understand, or at least read, other AIs’ minds. DeepMind’s new Theory of Mind-net AI...
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The Economist Special Report on Autonomous Vehicles 3 March 2018
A timely and comprehensive review of autonomous vehicles. The Economist report first brings the...
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Sensing trouble ahead, FT Big Read Driverless vehicles 22 February 2018
Fundamental questions raised about practicalities of 3D mapping. Each driverless car company is...
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AI in society, The unexamined mind in The Economist 17 February 2018
Work goes on to get AI to open its black box. This is a timely and wide-ranging article on a...
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PwC identifies three waves of automation between now and the mid-2030s 6 February 2018
Automation to affect women and men at different times. PwC’s economists have divided automation,...
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Israeli fossils hint at early migration by E Callaway in NewScientist 1 February 2018
Picture of early Homo sapiens history even more muddled. In 2017, reports emerged of the discovery...
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Portrait of a memory by Helen Shen in Nature 11 January 2018
Better technology enables ever more precise analysis of workings of memory. One of the main...
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Is deep learning fundamentally flawed and hitting a wall? by Chomba Bupe on Quora 060118
Neat critique of deep learning. Bupe brings useful perspective to the increasing controversy over...
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AI can hear a cardiac arrest by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 13 January 2018
AI now able to diagnose heart failure over the telephone. Corti, an AI start-up, has developed an...
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Brain-computer interfaces, Economist Technology Quarterly 6 January 2018
A timely review of a big growth area. The Economist’s latest Technology Quarterly constitutes a...
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Visual trick has AI mistake turtle for gun in NewScientist 11 November 2017
Machine learning is ever better but can still make mistakes. Andrew Ilyas, MIT, has managed to...
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Reality? It’s what you make it by Philip Ball in NewScientist 11 November 2017
Reality – it’s all in your mind. The article describes a new theory that says that there is...
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