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Understanding human intentions will be the next big breakthrough in AI

Understanding human intentions will be the next big breakthrough in AI

14 February 2023

With the recent news that the ChatGPT AI can pass a theory of mind test, how far away are we from an artificial intelligence that fully understands the goals and beliefs of others?


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Humans should worry us more than machines, says founding father of AI

5 June 2019

Yoshua Bengio is one of the pioneering developers of artificial intelligence and winner of computing’s "Nobel prize". His optimism about machines doesn’t extend to humanity


True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines

True AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines

8 May 2019

Stories abound of machines that are writing, painting and making music. Are we about to enter the creative singularity, asks Marcus du Sautoy


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Machine mind hack: The new threat that could scupper the AI revolution

24 April 2019

Even tiny tweaks to data can confuse AI algorithms, potentially arming cyber attackers with a way to undermine everything from image recognition to driverless cars


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After the Facebook scandal: The grand plan to hold AI to account

11 April 2018

From next month, EU citizens will have sweeping rights to know what computers are thinking about them –  but can that work, and if so how?


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AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code

25 October 2017

We are all too easily bamboozled by the quantum world's complexity – now artificial intelligence is venturing where human minds fear to go


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Brain box: Multitasking chips that can match the human mind

2 August 2017

An electrical component once thought impossible is delivering machine minds that can think on their own


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