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learning

robot with Lego

Technology

Robot learns to play with Lego by watching human teachers

Some tasks are too hard for us to program – so we're teaching robots by having them observe us instead

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Louisa Harrison and her son Frank

Life

‘Autism therapy helped my child speak’ – a mum hails new method

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

Technology

Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

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robot workers

Technology

Basic common sense is key to building more intelligent machines

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Brain has carrot and stick to teach us how to behave

Life

Brain has carrot and stick to teach us how to behave

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children

Life

The kids are alright – if you leave them alone

Culture

AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic

Technology

AI reads your tweets and spots when you’re being sarcastic

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Two vehicles on a partly forested hillside

Technology

Driverless cars learn from landscape pics before going off-road

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Two budgies sit on a branch facing one another

Life

Budgies use grammar to find meaning in unfamiliar phrases

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voice recognition

Technology

Prisoners' code word caught by software that eavesdrops on calls

Plug a machine-learning system in to prison phone lines and you can find out secrets a human monitor would never notice

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Technology

Controversial software claims to tell personality from your face

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Technology

From autism to Chinese, a headset to help you with your language

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Technology

Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data

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Life

Newborn neurons observed in a live brain for first time

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