6 January 2021
Documentary iHuman is thoroughly committed to an apocalyptic view of society in which we are in thrall to artificially intelligent machines. That is its strength – and its weakness, says Simon Ings
18 September 2019
Brad Pitt stars in thoughtful sci-fi Ad Astra, but even his strong performance can't plug the plot holes in this movie's melancholy heart
3 July 2019
Sight Machine, an AI project at the Barbican, shows how the algorithms used in techniques like facial detection capture the performance of a string quartet
27 February 2019
An experiment at London's Barbican will pit an AI composer trained on the works of Bach against the original pieces in a concert called The Eternal Golden Braid
2 January 2019
Plug-and-play human organs, non-human intelligences and missions to Mars add speculative spice to a year of cultural events focused on the future
1 November 2018
Two impossibly difficult pieces of music, a neural network and a curtain were the unlikely ingredients for musical triumph this Halloween
11 September 2018
Artist Jenna Sutela has used Mars-friendly bacteria to grow an alien culture, rich in music and poetry – but is it any good?
22 November 2017
AI-driven generative design is wiping out science as we know it, argues The Second Digital Turn, leaving humans with a very different future
