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New HBO series reimagines a group of life-like robots programmed with hope but marred in violence. They might be more human than we think.
Will our digital phrasebook finally be able to handle more than just simple snippets?
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Auto-translation software has been pretty frustrating to use. But news of vast improvements to Google’s translation software raises the prospect that websites will soon be browsable in any language.
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IBM’s Watson watched hundreds of horror movie trailers and then created its own for the new film Morgan.
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Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant device is coming to the UK and bringing smart homes with it.
Some innate human features can only be learned through evolution.
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Doing favours is a basic feature of human society – but can robots join in?
There could be plenty of demand from the space tour guides of the near future.
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Space tourists will need someone to show them around. This is just one of several jobs that currently don’t exist but are expected to be a reality with in a decade.
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Computer-aided decision-making has been shown to help in clinical contexts. But winning over doctors and patients is a different matter.
What if these two smartphones could share their learning of their user’s behaviour?
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Artificial intelligence gives technology the ability to learn and adapt. But they can learn a lot more if they can share their learning with other smart devices.
Do PEDs make athletes less human?
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As technology becomes fully integrated into our everyday lives, we may see athletes as the last vestiges of our humanity.
“Apparently you’ve got some kind of a troll problem?”
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500m posts are made daily on Twitter alone. Policing them is no easy task.
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The rise of online ‘chatbots’ shows how artificial intelligence is becoming a part of daily life. But how do you stop them talking like a really bad PA?
Resistance to new technologies tends to be driven by perceptions rather than actual evidence.
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Human resistance to innovation can be an obstacle to solving major global challenges.
The beautiful, if clunky, game.
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Computers must master football if they are to demonstrate that they can be our equal.
Computers are getting better at playing games such as chess.
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Artificial intelligence gives us machines that can beat humans at games such as chess and go. How long before we see AI surpass human intelligence?
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Sounds scary … so should we be worried?
What if robots turn against us?
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The threat from dangerous AI systems is vastly underappreciated and under-researched. If we don’t study them, we can’t fight them – or prevent them.
Machine learning is driving the next revolution in computing.
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We’re just at the beginning of working out the tasks machines will make us better at.
Computers may be smarter than humans at some things, but are they intelligent?
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Computing has been getting much smarter since the idea of artificial intelligent was first thought of 60 years ago. But are computers intelligent?
The future’s bright… the future’s virtual?
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As more companies move towards intelligent, natural voice controlled devices, is the writing on the wall for the keyboard and mouse?
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Science fiction provides a valuable resource from which the public view of AI can be assessed.