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After the Facebook scandal: The grand plan to hold AI to account
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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Humans
Killer AI boycott row shows there is research we can’t accept
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13 absurdly comic AI April Fool’s pranks you’ll want to try
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Mind
AI reconstructs whatever you see just by reading a brain scan
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Mind
Mind-reading AI uses brain scans to guess what you’re looking at
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Space
We should use nukes to deflect asteroids, says astro algorithm
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Humans
App guesses your emotions to target you with adverts
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Humans
DeepMind’s virtual psychology lab seeks flaws in digital minds
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Technology
Your next job interview could be playing a weird smartphone game
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Humans
AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation
Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation
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Physics
Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet
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Humans
We must challenge notions that Marx can explain the modern world
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Humans
Engines of creation – and the people who build them
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Space
NASA has discovered our solar system’s twin with 8 planets
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