Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room by Kevin Hartnett in Quanta Magazine 20 September 2018
Machine learning has yet to grow up. Machine learning is like a primary school child. It has...
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I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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Fish passes mirror test for first time by Yvaine Ye in NewScientist 8 September 2018
Self-awareness is not all it’s cracked up to be. Ye reports on new research from Osaka City...
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Head full of brains, shoes full of feet in The Economist 1 September 2018
As AI becomes more human, it grows stronger. Supervised machine learning has made great strides in...
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Robot laws by Douglas Heaven in NewScientist 4 August 2018
Asimov’s three laws of robotics get overhauled. Asimov was clearly on the right track when he...
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The consciousness wager by Per Snaprud in NewScientist 23 June 2018
Consciousness author tracks down original NCCs bet. Snaprud, who is writing a book on...
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The secret of you by Caroline Williams in NewScientist 7 July 2018
The cerebellum might be the cortex’s workhorse. It turns out that the cerebellum is connected to...
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Start-ups gain edge in new era of computing by Richard Waters in Financial Times 070618
It’s not all going the way of the cloud. The move towards the cloud has centralised more and more...
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Buzz off by Richard Schiffman in NewScientist 9 June 2018
Bees are great, but do they really have consciousness? This is a useful article exploring the...
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From A&E to AI in The Economist 9 June 2018
AI continues to transform medical diagnostics. This is a useful article updating the reader on the...
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The history of big-headedness in The Economist 2 June 2018
Fascinating research explains why hominin brains grew large. Two research teams, working...
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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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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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