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A functional MRI scan showing stimulation in the brain

Technology

Mind-reading AI works out what you are thinking from brain scans

A brain decoder can extract words and sentences from the brain recordings of people listening to stories or watching silent films

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Abstract visualisation of sound waves

Technology

Meta’s text-to-audio AI can create common sounds and generate music

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A grid of houses

Technology

AI can tell which buildings are energy efficient from the outside

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Technology

A third of scientists working on AI say it could cause global disaster

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 13: A general view ahead of the stocktake plenary on day 14 during COP26 at SECC on November 13, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. On day fourteen of the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow the focus is on delegations' negotiations to agree the final text for the COP26 Agreement.

Technology

AI climate negotiators can debate 100 years worth of policy in seconds

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An artificial intelligence could gauge how much pain a laboratory mouse is in based on its grimaces, potentially aiding the development of pain-relieving drugs

Health

AI that can see pain in a mouse's face could aid drug development

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An image of the digita humanoid soccer players

Technology

DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

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Someone pointing on a phone

Technology

Your smartphone could recognise you just by the way you hold it

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An artificial intelligence that analyses the microbiome and then recommends personalised diets may relieve chronic constipation more effectively that the standard treatment

Health

AI that recommends diets based on the microbiome relieves constipation

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Swatted dead mosquito

Technology

AI learns how to recognise the species of splatted mosquitoes

Researchers have gathered 1500 images of mosquitoes – both squished and not – for training AI. Their goal is to build a smartphone app that can track disease-causing species

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Life

Cambridge lab for clever birds saved from closure by public donations

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Humans

Mistakenly calling AIs 'sentient' is more dangerous than we think

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Technology

A four-legged robot can learn to walk in an hour like a newborn foal

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Technology

AI can use your brainwaves to see things that you can't

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