Rogue traders by Daniel Cossins in NewScientist 22 December 2018
Fungi can do economics too. Cossins describes three pieces of research that show that non-human...
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Quora answer to Is reinforcement learning a dead end? by Sridhar Mahadevan
Trenchant critique of reinforcement learning. Mahadevan, a fellow of the AAAI, sets out his...
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Uber has cracked two classic ’80s video games by Will Knight in MIT Technology Review 26 November 2018
New algorithm makes up for intermittent reinforcement. In most games, a machine learning algorithm...
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‘Mini brains’ show human-like activity by Sara Reardon in Nature 22 November 2018
Cortical tissue in a Petri dish makes waves. Scientists have cultured stem cells to form clumps of...
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The plant whisperer by Joshua Howgego in NewScientist 24 November 2018
Plants can learn and memorise. Evolutionary ecologist, Monica Gagliano, has managed to demonstrate...
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Beyond fast and slow by Madeleine Finlay in NewScientist 17 November 2018
Critiquing Kahneman’s Thinking, fast and slow. Daniel Kahneman popularised the idea that...
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Will robots kill us by Stephen Hawking in Sunday Times 14 October 2018
The existential risk lies in AI drivers and goals. Hawking rightly points out the distinct...
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FT Big Read Artificial Intelligence by Richard Waters in Financial Times 10 October 2018
Mid-term report on AI paints a cooperative picture. The story here is that AI will work most...
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Thoughts laid bare by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 29 September 2018
Could AI help us discover where consciousness lies in the brain? Some of the world’s big...
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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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