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DeepMind's neural network teaches AI to reason about the world

14 June 2017

Understanding the relationship between previously unseen objects is a key part of human intelligence, but a new system from DeepMind attempts to give AI the skill
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Chatbots learn how to negotiate and drive a hard bargain

14 June 2017

Bots may soon be able to book a holiday for you or help you buy or sell your house
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Mass of a white dwarf star directly measured for the first time

7 June 2017

Einstein said it couldn’t be done, but astrophysicists have used his prediction that gravity bends light to directly measure the mass of a dense stellar remnant

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