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Hordes of automated bots run the internet – can we bring them to heel?

Technology

Hordes of automated bots run the internet – can we bring them to heel?

Roaming chunks of code, pre-programmed to perform all manner of tasks, shape the web and our experience of it. What are they up to? And as they get smarter, how can we regain control?

Features

Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

Humans

Why it’s the aliens living inside you that create your sense of you

Features

The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world

Humans

The Preserve review: The inner struggle to survive in a robot world

Culture

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Technology

Voice assistant recordings could reveal what someone nearby is typing

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The predictions of DeepMind’s latest AI could revolutionise medicine

Technology

The predictions of DeepMind’s latest AI could revolutionise medicine

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Melissa McCarthy and Bobby Cannavale in Superintelligence

Technology

Superintelligence review: A fun take on the AI apocalypse storyline

Culture

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Health

AI that can diagnose tinnitus from brain scans may improve treatment

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Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?

Technology

Emotion-detecting AIs are here – do they work and how should we feel?

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Evolution explains why social distancing due to covid-19 is so hard

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Evolution explains why social distancing due to covid-19 is so hard

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AI vision could be improved with sensors that mimic human eyes

Technology

AI vision could be improved with sensors that mimic human eyes

Using a material that only responds to changing light like a human retina would, a new digital sensor could let robots or self-driving cars better observe moving scenes

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Technology

Robots can now understand what you are saying to follow commands

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Old books bound in human skin make for spooky Halloween reading

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Technology

Facebook AI can translate directly between any of 100 languages

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Technology

Robot that can perform colonoscopies aims to make it less unpleasant

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