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The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the...
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We used to believe our brains couldn’t be changed. Now we believe they can – if we want it enough....
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Most people in the world speak more than one language, suggesting the human brain evolved to work in multiple tongues....
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Is there a uniform set of moral laws, and if so, can we teach artificial intelligence those laws to keep...
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It isn’t unreasonable to think of drones as pesky technological nuisances. Our modern digital ecosystem regularly infringes on traditional notions...
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Over seven decades ago in 1941, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story, “Reason” (PDF), in which energy captured from the...
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It already seems a little like computers can read our minds; features like Google’s auto-complete, Facebook’s friend suggestions, and the...
