Digital video surveillance systems can’t just identify who someone is. They can also work out how someone is feeling and…
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Have you ever wondered what flirting with artificial intelligence would look like? Research scientist and engineer Janelle Shane has given…
The EU looks set to ban some of the most concerning forms of artificial intelligence (AI), such as the “social…
Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial intelligence (AI) system scans your face,…
My colleagues and I changed a digital version of Monopoly so that instead of getting US$200 each time a player…
Last year we saw a human fighter jet pilot take on an AI system in a series of simulated dogfights…
Thomas Jefferson, the American statesman and third US president, was many things (including, notoriously, a slave-owner). But whatever else he…
The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers from Rousseau to Heidegger to…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can…
During a walking tour of Queensland’s Daintree rainforest in Australia, a talented guide regularly pointed out creatures that were well…