Elon Musk Unveils Humanoid Robot to Take Over ‘Boring’ Work by Dana Hull and Edward Ludlow on Bloomberg 20 August 2021
It may be premature but it is the future. There has been a mixed reaction to Tesla’s announcement...
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Apes show that good manners are law of the jungle by Kaya Burgess in The Times 12 August 2021
Chimps and bonobos are really similar to us. Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees and...
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Where’s my robot car? By Jeff Hecht in New Scientist 31 July 2021
The car of the future is taking years to emerge. The car of the future is likely to be powered by...
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Pentagon using AI to figure out what enemy will do next by Michael Evans in The Times 3 August 2021
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. The US is developing a highly advanced AI to work out what...
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Patently brilliant … AI listed as inventor for first time by Tom Knowles in The Times 28 July 2021
And so it begins. The South Africa patent office has listed an algorithm as the inventor of...
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New kind of human made love not war by Rhys Blakely and Tom Whipple in The Times 25 June 2021
Oh, to travel back in time. Researchers have unearthed yet another species of Homo, Nesher Ramla...
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Graham Lawton interviews Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony about Noise in New Scientist 19 June 2021
Humans really are alarmingly inconsistent in their judgements. It is hard to see why we would...
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AI is learning how to create itself by Will Douglas Heaven in MIT Technology Review 27 May 2021
This may be the way forward to artificial general intelligence. Researchers have developed a...
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Beijing-funded AI researchers surpass Google and OpenAI with new language processing model by Coco Feng in South China Morning Post 2 June 2021
China researchers overtake the US in natural language processing. The new WuDao 2.0 natural...
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Autonomous military drones may have attacked humans by David Hambling in New Scientist 5 June 2021
This genie is not going back into the bottle. Last year, autonomous lethal drones apparently...
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Cooperative AI: machines must learn to find common ground by Allan Dafoe et al in Nature 4 May 2021
The future will be about the relationship between AI and humans. This excellent article describes...
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Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI by Siobhan Roberts in MIT Technology Review 16 April 2021
Another assault on flexible thinking. There are only two hurdles left to jump before creating the...
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A machine that thinks like us by Chris Stokel-Walker in New Scientist 17 April 2021
The meaning of consciousness continues to confuse people. Apparently, researchers have developed a...
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A quantum trick with photons gives AI a speed boost by Leah Crane in New Scientist 20 March 2021
AI’s power will be revolutionised by quantum computing. Machine learning has advanced hugely over...
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Apes adopt orphans in display of altruism by Rhys Blakely in The Times 19 March 2021
Bonobos empathise, just like us. Researchers have now discovered rare instances of female bonobos...
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman: AI will generate enough wealth to pay each adult $13,500 a year by Catherine Clifford on CNBC 17 March 2021
AI shows us the way towards a universal basic income. We have still not yet grasped that the pace...
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Machine in the ghost by Ed Simon in Aeon 5 February 2021
What price religion when machines have consciousness? It turns out that the answer may not be...
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Chimpanzees seem to speak in sentences of three or more calls by Michael Marshall in New Scientist 20 February 2021
We are learning more and more about animal communications. Recent research with chimpanzees shows...
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Talk to the animals by Edd Gent in New Scientist 19 December 2020
AI is well suited to interpreting animal communications. It is surprising that nobody thought of...
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The new grand bargain in The Economist 21 November 2020
Geopolitics will become geotechnics. The Economist points out that increasingly countries are...
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