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How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain

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How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain

The consent of the people will be needed if the machine learning revolution is to succeed, says Paul Marks

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Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

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First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

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A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

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Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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AI learns to play video game from instructions in plain English

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Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

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Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Octopuses seem to have special gene editing powers

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Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes

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Orangutan watches man place something in a yellow box

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Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans help humans when they look for objects in the wrong place - showing they can tell when others believe something that's false

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Synthetic humans help computers understand how real people act

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Neanderthal artist revealed in a finely carved raven bone

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MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us

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Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

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