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animal intelligence

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Life

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests

What happens when you test animal thinking and sense of self on their own terms? Two books show the very different picture that emerges

Culture

voice recognition

Technology

Prisoners' code word caught by software that eavesdrops on calls

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Checklist of worst-case scenarios could help prepare for evil AI

Technology

Checklist of worst-case scenarios could help prepare for evil AI

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The Google assistant being announced

Technology

Say hello to Allo – and the AI assistants set to run your life

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Viv

Technology

One Per Cent

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sketch

Technology

Scan your doodles to find the perfect matching photo online

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A wobbly image of Google's logs on a building

Technology

Did Google's NHS patient data deal need ethical approval?

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Blurred woman walks in front of Facebook logo

Technology

Facebook must fight for its facial recognition tech in court

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Some parents and a baby being looked at in an A and E cubicle by a doctor in scrubs

Technology

Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

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Robo-Don Draper: The ad firm where the new boss is a robot

Technology

Robo-Don Draper: The ad firm where the new boss is a robot

The world's biggest ad agency has just hired its first AI creative director - a clever stunt or the beginning of the end for its human counterparts?

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Humans

Other minds and cryptominds, from babies to robots to God

CultureLab

Technology

One Per Cent

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Technology

Lifelogging and fiction can teach computers to see how we see

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Technology

AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS

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