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AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved

Questioning a chatbot that has been trained on bestselling books from a particular decade can give researchers a measure of the social biases of that era

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AI creates a realistic video of you dancing from a single still image

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X-ray of lung showing chest cancer

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Google AI helps doctors decide whether to trust diagnoses made by AI

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What is xAI, Elon Musk’s new AI company, and will it succeed?

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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

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The best new science fiction books of July 2023

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W63DR9 Creech and Nellis Airmen coordinated a training flight together on the Nevada Test and Training Range, July 15, 2019. Aircrew with the 66th Rescue Squadron conducted training exercises and integrated with the MQ-9 Reaper aircrew to document the Reaper in flight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Haley Stevens)

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AI recap this month: Drone 'kills' operator; DeepMind's speed up

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AIs will become useless if they keep learning from other AIs

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 30: A pair of 1X androids are displayed at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) at ExCel on May 30, 2023 in London, England. The event is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's flagship conference and a forum for robotics researchers to present and discuss their work. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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Robotics gets less attention than it should given its potential impact

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Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

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Is it ethical to use complex mini-brains for artificial intelligence?

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DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing

Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by an artificial intelligence could make millions of programs run faster

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Reports of an AI drone that 'killed' its operator are pure fiction

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Software update for world’s wind farms could power millions more homes

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Death of an Author review: Murder mystery generated by AI isn't awful

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AI can work out how quantum computers stack up to one another

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