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Ian McEwan

Technology

Why Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction

What would the 1980s have been like if Alan Turing had lived? Ian McEwan talks about his exploration of a speculative past for AI in his novel Machines Like Me

Culture

A farm from above

Technology

AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution

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Maths exam

Mathematics

DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong

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School children take tests

Technology

AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions

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An African grey parrot

Technology

AIs go up against animals in an epic competition to test intelligence

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Sun bear

Life

Sun bears copy each other's facial expressions to communicate

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upside down dog

Technology

The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images

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traffic roundabout

Technology

World-class Go-playing AI has learned to do really hard colouring-in

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Someone smelling

Humans

Breathing in before doing something may actually make you better at it

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Harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani

Technology

An AI has created music based on Bach – but will an audience notice?

An experiment at London's Barbican will pit an AI composer trained on the works of Bach against the original pieces in a concert called The Eternal Golden Braid

Culture

Technology

Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrity’s face

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Technology

AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you

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Technology

We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation

Leader

Mind

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

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