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AI makes new video games by watching people play Super Mario and Kirby

An artificial intelligence has taught itself the basics of video game design by watching people play classic games and is now generating new ones of its own

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A robot captivates a group of children

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Facebook's AI is writing short stories and they actually make sense

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Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks

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Stupid AI: How humans can stop machines from falling for visual tricks

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The Martians have landed in London, and they're hogging the camera

Space

The Martians have landed in London, and they're hogging the camera

Culture

Barack Obama through the display on a video camera

Technology

AI can make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch

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This image made from video of a fake video featuring former President Barack Obama shows elements of facial mapping used in new technology that lets anyone make videos of real people appearing to say things they've never said.

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Deepfakes won't wreck politics this year even if politicians might

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A person attempting an IQ test

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DeepMind AI takes IQ tests to probe its ability for abstract thought

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A woman answers the phone

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Google’s human-like phone calls are a clever but nasty trick

Analysis

AI artwork

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After the Facebook scandal: The grand plan to hold AI to account

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Killer AI boycott row shows there is research we can’t accept

A South Korean university has dismissed fears it would work on killer robots. The dispute reflects growing worries over autonomous weapons, says Paul Marks

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13 absurdly comic AI April Fool's pranks you'll want to try

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AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan

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Mind-reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you're looking at

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We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm

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