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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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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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Screenshot from the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge

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AI learns to play video game from instructions in plain English

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Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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Humans

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

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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

Life

Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out

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Google self-driving car pauses as people cross road in front of it

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Synthetic humans help computers understand how real people act

A huge database of virtual figures that move like real people is helping computer vision systems understand what they're seeing when they look at us

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

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Life

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

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Life

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

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Dogs use deception to get what they want from humans (a sausage)

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