How New Scientist readers predicted the Oscar winners
5 March 2018
We ran a simple experiment to test if the wisdom of the crowd could predict the future. It looks to have been a success
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Unbreakable: The race to protect our secrets from quantum hacks
28 February 2018
Quantum computers will smash our best encryption. To make everything from online chats to government intelligence safe, we need maths no machine could solve
AI cheats at old Atari games by finding unknown bugs in the code
27 February 2018
An AI found a bug in the Atari game Q*bert and exploited it to quickly score a million points. It used self-destruction as a winning strategy too
Can you predict the future? Take our Oscars quiz to find out
22 February 2018
Intelligence agencies have found that crowds of everyday people can forecast events with surprising accuracy. Now we’re running our own experiment
Work the crowd: How ordinary people can predict the future
21 February 2018
Want to know if a dictator will be deposed? Or shares will crash? Intelligence agencies and firms are realising groups of everyday people can foresee what will happen
Algorithms that change lives should be trialled like new drugs
17 January 2018
An algorithm used by US courts to predict reoffenders turns out to be no more accurate than random people on the internet. Why wasn’t it properly tested before now?
Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster
20 December 2017
By changing an image pixel by pixel, neural networks can be tricked into thinking a dog is two people skiing
Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands
15 November 2017
In our desire to make ethical artificial intelligence, we better be ready for machines that can choose to say no, says Jamais Cascio
We’ve figured out how to ensure quantum computers can be trusted
7 November 2017
Quantum computers will be useless if we can't trust their calculations. Now, two teams have programmed quantum systems to detect their own errors
Too much information? The data-driven future of health
18 October 2017
Ever more bioinformation is readily available through tracking devices and databases – but does it risk getting up too close and personal, asks a new book
