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The hardest thing about robots? Teaching them to cope with us

The hardest thing about robots? Teaching them to cope with us

7 August 2019

Humans are spectacularly weird and unpredictable. Computer scientist Anca Dragan is working on helpful robots that understand how we get things wrong
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It's too soon to tell if DeepMind's medical AI will save any lives

31 July 2019

A DeepMind AI can predict whether someone will get acute kidney injury 48 hours before it occurs, but it's too soon to tell if the tech will actually make a difference

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