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The world in 2076: Machines outsmart us but we're still on top

Great thinkers have long feared the "technological singularity", in which the machines we designed run rings around us. Here's why it probably won't happen

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Watch cockatoo genius chew out a tool from a piece of cardboard

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Facebook’s tech boss on how AI will transform how we interact

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Google DeepMind’s AI learns to play with physical objects

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What if we are victims of an AI's singularity?

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Binge-watching videos teaches computers to recognise sounds

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

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The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

Using machine learning, computers have come up with codes that let them send secret messages to each other – but they’re still a long way off humans

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$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

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Dr House goes digital as IBM's Watson diagnoses rare diseases

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