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Why I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

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Why I'm deeply sceptical about comparisons between humans and machines

Humans learn very differently to machines, thanks to our biased, malleable memory – and that's a good thing, says Charan Ranganath, director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis

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Jennifer Walshe, 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music

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51¶¯Âþ recommends 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music

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Caption: (L-R) JACK QUAID as Josh and SOPHIE THATCHER as Iris in New Line Cinema?s ?COMPANION,? a Warner Bros. Pictures release.

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Robot Iris turns out to be a straw man in horror-comedy Companion

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Why AI resorts to stereotypes when it is role-playing humans

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Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills

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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago

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Dating apps should fix their problems before saddling us with new ones

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Dating apps should fix their problems before saddling us with new ones

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GDKEG6 Oil refinery at twilight

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How the future rise of AI lawyers could force Big Oil to pay up

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Quantum computer circuitry illustration. Conventional computers store information as 'bits', with each transistor holding either a 1 or a 0. Quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, which operate according to two principles of quantum physics. One of the principles, supposition, allows a qubit to store a 1 and a 0 at the same time. This means two qubits can hold four values at once. The second principle, entanglement, means that the state of one qubit can depend on the state of another. As you expand the number of qubits, the machine becomes exponentially more powerful.

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Why AI firms should follow the example of quantum computing research

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Humans

Fossil proteins may soon reveal how we're related to Australopithecus

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil record is spotty in places, but the latest finds could give us enough clues to pin down how we are linked

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People are starting to trust AI more – and view it as more human-like

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AI chip smaller than a grain of salt uses light to decode data

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DeepSeek has burst the AI hype bubble – now all bets are off

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How futurism took an abrupt right turn in the 20th century

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