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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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Deepfake detector spots fake videos of Ukraine's president Zelenskyy

7 December 2022

A deepfake detector designed to identify unique facial expressions and hand gestures could spot manipulated videos of world leaders such as Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin


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‘Artificial synapse’ could make neural networks work more like brains

28 July 2022

Networks of nanoscale resistors that work in a similar way to nerve cells in the body could offer advantages over digital machine learning


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DeepMind AI learns physics by watching videos that don't make sense

11 July 2022

An algorithm created by AI firm DeepMind can distinguish between videos in which objects obey the laws of physics and ones where they don't


Watch: Beatles documentary Get Back uses custom AI to isolate sounds

Watch: Beatles documentary Get Back uses custom AI to isolate sounds

8 February 2022

The Beatles documentary Get Back used custom-made artificial intelligence to separate instruments, background noise and speech from the original mono recordings


A quantum trick with photons gives machine learning a speed boost

A quantum trick with photons gives machine learning a speed boost

10 March 2021

Machine learning, a process used to train artificial intelligences, can take an extremely long time – but a quantum trick could massively speed things up for tasks involving particles of light called photons


Tony Veale & Mike Cook

Social media bots: Discovering the world of twitter mischief-making

2 December 2019

Mischief-making bots are the ne’er-do-wells of the digital realm, but Tony Veale and Mike Cook are on a mission to reveal the good that Twitterbots can do


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Artificial intelligence (AI)

10 June 2019

Artificial intelligence or AI simply means software used by computers to mimic aspects of human intelligence. For example, a program that recommends what you should read based on books you’ve bought or a robot vacuum that has a basic grasp of the world...


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