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Reports of an AI drone that 'killed' its operator are pure fiction

2 June 2023

It has been widely reported that a US Air Force drone went rogue and "killed" its operator in a simulation, sparking fears of an AI revolution - but this simulation never took place. Why are we so quick to believe AI horror stories?


Is GPT-4 already showing signs of artificial general intelligence?

24 March 2023

Microsoft has created a series of tests for OpenAI's GPT-4 that it claims show the artificial intelligence model is already displaying "sparks" of general intelligence


The ROBO-01, an autonomous concept car from Chinese firm Jidu

Why you may never be able to buy your own self-driving car

7 December 2022

Despite recent claims of vehicles having full automation, it is no more possible to buy a truly self-driving car now than it was 15 years ago. Will private cars that never need a driver ever reach the market?


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Who should own the copyright on AI-generated artwork?

27 September 2022

Artificial intelligences can create images inspired by the human-generated art they train on. This is raising concerns over copyright and artists’ livelihoods


3D shape of a protein

AlphaFold: Why DeepMind’s protein-folding AI is transformational

29 July 2022

Understanding proteins and their complex 3D shapes is key to understanding life, and especially for developing drugs


Cloud blocks forming faces in sky

How can we prevent AI from being racist, sexist and offensive?

17 June 2022

Artificial intelligences continue to exhibit the same biases and prejudices as humans because they are trained on what we create, but there are ways we can improve the situation


Woman's eye with cross hair and Facebook logo

Why is Facebook ditching face recognition and will it delete my data?

4 November 2021

Users of the social network will have their face data deleted, Facebook's parent company Meta has announced, but it is less clear what will happen with the AI algorithms trained on that data


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