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Humans

The White House talks AI, but does it understand?

Recent White House workshops reveal the government's anxiety and unease over placing decisions in the hands of algorithms, says Brendan Byrne

Culture

A woman sits in the driver's seat of her Tesla car, driving down a road without her hands on the steering wheel

Technology

AI needs oversight – time to set standards for autonomous tech

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Speak & Spell machine

Technology

Will AI's bubble pop? Deep learning's hype machine in overdrive

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Technology

Driverless cars learn from landscape pics before going off-road

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Technology

Google’s new NHS deal is start of machine learning marketplace

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Technology

Googly-eyed robots rule: Why it's vital to make us like them

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Technology

Robot eyes and humans fix on different things to decode a scene

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Technology

Save the driver or pedestrian? Such robot car dilemmas are folly

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Technology

Forget killer robots: This is the future of supersmart machines

Insight

Why you should worry about intelligent machines

Technology

Why you should worry about intelligent machines

Artificial intelligence itself isn't a problem – the threat lies in what humans might do with it

Leader

Technology

Can machines take our jobs without ruining our lives?

Features

Technology

AI just got a big boost in its ability to understand the news

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Life

Making squirrels count and other dumb animal intelligence tests

Culture

Technology

Prisoners' code word caught by software that eavesdrops on calls

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