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Google DeepMind AI outplays humans at video games

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Google DeepMind AI outplays humans at video games

Artificial intelligence software, built by a Google subsidiary in London, has learned to play 49 old Atari games just by watching them

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Blood bank data turns donations into a numbers game

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Robot jazz band showcases its freestyling skills

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Robot jazz band showcases its freestyling skills

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Big science names sign open letter detailing AI danger

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What you 'like' on Facebook gives away your personality

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What you 'like' on Facebook gives away your personality

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Software can now beat any human player at poker

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Software can now beat any human player at poker

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Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence

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Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence

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Try the hardest crossword ever set by a computer

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Try the hardest crossword ever set by a computer

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Optical illusions fool computers into seeing things

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Optical illusions fool computers into seeing things

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Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn

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Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn

With an underground "brain network" and the ability to react and remember, plants have their own kind of intelligence – and may even cry out in pain

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Curious bots make better companions in the classroom

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AI knows a great sporting moment when it sees one

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Computers are learning to see the world like we do

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