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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

Two “thinking” regions of human brains are much richer in a neurotransmitter called dopamine than the equivalent brain regions in apes and monkeys

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Future by design: Will the power of AI reshape our world?

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An African forest elephant in a woodland setting in Loango National Park, Gabon.

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What’s the best way to scare an elephant? Use an AI scarecrow

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Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

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AI binges on CSI crime shows and learns to guess whodunnit

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Visual trick fools AI into thinking a turtle is really a rifle

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Visual trick fools AI into thinking a turtle is really a rifle

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Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror

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AlphaGo's AI upgrade gets round the need for human input

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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

Who says the thoughts and perceptions of animals are closed to us? Adrian Barnett finds out what it is like to be a...

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How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

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We urgently need to broaden the conversation on AI

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How scaremongering stops us asking the right questions about AI

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Build an AI god? Beware the downsides of this weird tech plan

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