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What if we are victims of an AI's singularity?

Creating superintellingence may be inevitable, unless we are already living in a simulation. A collection of AI essays grapples with this weighty issue

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Binge-watching videos teaches computers to recognise sounds

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Every human culture includes cooking – this is how it began

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Death: A special report on the inevitable

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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

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Brown pebble turns out to be first ever pickled dinosaur brain

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The road to artificial intelligence: A case of data over theory

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

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Google's neural networks invent their own encryption

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Life

Smart lab rats filmed using hooked tools to get chocolate cereal

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Bryan Johnson presenting some of his ideas

Health

$100 million project to make intelligence-boosting brain implant

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Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

Life

Mice’s love songs go wrong when ‘language gene’ is messed up

The FOXP2 gene probably helped us evolve speech when we split from chimpanzees. But tinkering with the gene in mice affects their communication too

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Dr House goes digital as IBM's Watson diagnoses rare diseases

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First UK trial of driverless pods paves way for autonomous taxis

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DeepMind's AI has learned to navigate the Tube using memory

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Why shows like Westworld only show dark side of our robot future

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