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It’s up to us if powerful AI embodies our virtues or our vices

It’s up to us if powerful AI embodies our virtues or our vices

30 December 2017

Compassionate, caring, conflicted, bigoted, self-absorbed, narcissistic, downright evil: as pervasive and powerful AI arrives, it will reflect who we are
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Engines of creation - and the people who build them

25 December 2017

This was the year computers took creativity to extraordinary levels. Whether this is welcome news is entirely down to us, says Will Heaven

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