Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt review – a joyful peek under the hood
19 September 2018
Even when we fail spectacularly at them, computer games are crafted to be a medium of delights, as an exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum reveals
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AI tries bad improv comedy to trick people into thinking it is human
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Artificial intelligence has joined forces with a group of actors to create spontaneous comedy sketches on stage. The result is a new variant of the Turing test
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DelFly is a robot that flies through a room with as much agility as a real fly using its flappy wings. It is also helping researchers understand how insects move
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