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animal intelligence

AI coach will train hopeless chatbots to pass the Turing test

Technology

AI coach will train hopeless chatbots to pass the Turing test

A neural network trained to rate how human-like an AI is could turn Alexa and Siri into much more convincing conversation partners

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Raven

Life

Ravens can plan for future as well as 4-year-old children can

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medical records

Technology

AI doctors should improve healthcare, but not at any cost

Leader

AI artwork

Technology

Artificial Intelligence ushers in the era of superhuman doctors

Features

humpback whale feeding next a salmon hatchery

Life

Whales sneak into shallow water to eat salmon from hatcheries

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A machine learning algorithm trained on thousands of lines of English poetry can now mimic different poetic styles - but its verse doesn’t quite ring true

Technology

Neural network poetry is so bad we think it’s written by humans

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Male executive shoes on desk

Technology

AI photo check exposes scale of diversity problem at top firms

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Figure walking down corridor

Technology

Who do we think we are?

Culture

A horse with two heads

Technology

Peering inside an AI's brain will help us trust its decisions

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Banded Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus) perched on a branch in Ecuador, South America.

Life

Cuckoos mimic the sound of musk hogs to avoid being eaten

The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig-like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry

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Technology

Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art

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Health

People with higher IQs are more likely to live to their 80s

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Technology

Google's multitasking neural net can juggle eight things at once

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Technology

Volunteers teach AI to spot slavery sites from satellite images

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