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AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make

It's a nightmarish amount of work to figure out how to build a molecule from scratch. Now machines can do it and it will mean a bounty of new drugs and materials

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Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn’t be such hard work

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Making games like Red Dead Redemption 2 shouldn’t be such hard work

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AIs invent weird new limbs to beat virtual obstacle courses

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AI's dirty secret: Energy-guzzling machines may fuel global warming

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Find out how outrageously weird octopuses are – take our quiz

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Find out how outrageously weird octopuses are – take our quiz

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Why the quest for ethical AI is doomed to failure

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AI has reimagined nature and it’s both amazing and terrifying

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Facebook's AI is writing short stories and they actually make sense

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Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI

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Mind-reading devices can now access your thoughts and dreams using AI

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Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks

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Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks

Adversarial images that trick computers into seeing what isn’t there are a big problem for AI – but mimicking human perception might provide a fix

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People are more clued up about science than you might think

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Honeybee swarms act like superorganisms to stay together in high winds

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AI tries bad improv comedy to trick people into thinking it is human

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Birds can learn to understand the meanings of other species' calls

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