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Alexa

Technology

How we fell in love with our voice-activated home assistants

Personal assistants like Amazon’s Alexa already do our bidding. Why do we want them to be our friends too?

Insight

gamers

Technology

DeepMind's AI wants to beat us at video game StarCraft next

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LIGO

Environment

The 12 biggest and best science stories of 2016

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Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

Life

Monkeys should be able to talk just like us – so why don't they?

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Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics

Technology

Machine learning lets computer create melodies to fit any lyrics

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Humans

Super-you: Train your brain to beat the inbuilt fear factory

Features

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Physics

Super-you: Discover the physics genius inside your brain

Features

A woman flits between three tables of vintage items

Technology

Lazy coders are training artificial intelligences to be sexist

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Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with

Technology

Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with

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bear catching fish

Technology

AI learns to predict the future by watching 2 million videos

A deep learning system generates the next few frames of a story based on just one image, helping it to predict the future and understand the present

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Technology

Reality-bending art show reveals how easily we are manipulated

Culture

Technology

Intelligence rethought: AIs know us, but don't think like us

Features

Technology

AI pilot helps US air force with tactics in simulated operations

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Technology

Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro

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