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Technology

AI could monitor farms from space to look for illegal pollution

AI can find farms from space. The technique is being used to monitor some farms in Europe and may eventually be able to flag those that break the law

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Mathematics

DeepMind created a maths AI that can add up to 6 but gets 7 wrong

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Technology

AI achieves its best ever mark on a set of English exam questions

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Technology

AIs go up against animals in an epic competition to test intelligence

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Life

Sun bears copy each other's facial expressions to communicate

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Technology

The best image-recognition AIs are fooled by slightly rotated images

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Technology

World-class Go-playing AI has learned to do really hard colouring-in

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Humans

Breathing in before doing something may actually make you better at it

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Technology

An AI has created music based on Bach – but will an audience notice?

Culture

Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrity’s face

Technology

Picture-editing AI lets you easily alter a celebrity’s face

AI can create convincing pictures of fake people, but now they are expert photo editors too

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Technology

AIs could debate whether a smart assistant should snitch on you

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Technology

We don't know the real impact of fake news and other disinformation

Leader

Mind

How to upgrade your thinking and avoid traps that make you look stupid

Features

Technology

Fears of OpenAI’s super-trolling artificial intelligence are overblown

Analysis