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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The one area AI still falls flat by Gillian Tett in FT Magazine 18 December 2021
Jokes are good examples of edge cases, which AI cannot yet address. Edge cases are those instances...
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AI for all by Gabriela Ramos in New Scientist 4 December 2021
UNESCO’s international agreement on AI ethics looks great, but is it really? 193 countries have...
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Chess faces stalemate in its match with machines in Financial Times 27 November 2021
Human AI interaction will throw up some curious questions. We know that chess algorithms these...
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The last human by Kate Ravilious in New Scientist 27November 2021
Our emotions allowed our Homo to outdo every other Homo. 50,000 years ago, Eurasia boasted not...
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DeepMind is developing one algorithm to rule them all by George Anadiotis at VentureBeat 12 October 2021
Could this be the precursor to artificial general intelligence? The trouble about machine learning...
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Inside Boston Dynamics’ project to create humanoid robots by Ben Dickson at VentureBeat 27 August 2021
The domestic robot takes shape. Elon Musk recently hit the headlines with the introduction of...
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What tech does Xi want? in The Economist 14 August 2021
China finally decides to nationalise tech. One of the wonders of modern China is that a communist...
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Is it smarter than a seven-month-old in The Economist 4 September 2021
Machine learners and symbolisers are still at odds. This is the problem that currently bedevils...
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