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Raven

Life

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

The smart birds seem to have evolved this flexible cognitive ability independently from hominids as the two lineages diverged about 320 million years ago

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AI artwork

Technology

Artificial Intelligence ushers in the era of superhuman doctors

Features

medical records

Technology

AI doctors should improve healthcare, but not at any cost

Leader

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

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Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art

Technology

Artificially intelligent painters invent new styles of art

Big stylistic shifts in art usually come from genius painters like Picasso – but an AI is being trained to create unconventional pictures of its own

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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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Health

DNA variants that are bad for health may also make you stupid

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