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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

To understand the power – and limitations – of artificial intelligence, we need information, not hype. Alex Wilkins explores what four new books, from Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Neil Lawrence and Shannon Vallor, offer

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Sci-fi author Martha Wells on what a machine intelligence might want

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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Read an extract from All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Some metals actually grow more resilient when hot

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Physicists are grappling with their own reproducibility crisis

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Male artist, painting a new creative painting in his art studio

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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MINING - West Pole Beacon.

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby's cancer diagnosis added urgency to his project, as part of musical collective Mining, to turn weather and sea data into music

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024's best documentaries to date

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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Sarah Perry's Enlightenment is a moving story of love and astronomy

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

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