‘Can I see your parts list?’ What AI’s attempted chat-up lines tell us about computer-generated language
Have you ever wondered what flirting with artificial intelligence would look like? Research scientist and…
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The EU is cracking down on AI, but leaves a loophole for mass surveillance
The EU looks set to ban some of the most concerning forms of artificial intelligence…
AI is increasingly being used to identify emotions – here’s what’s at stake
Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial…
Embrace the unexpected: To teach AI how to handle new situations, change the rules of the game
My colleagues and I changed a digital version of Monopoly so that instead of getting…
DARPA’s ACE program is going ahead with sticking an AI inside a real fighter jet
Last year we saw a human fighter jet pilot take on an AI system in…
AI and you: how confusion about the technology that runs our world threatens democracy
Thomas Jefferson, the American statesman and third US president, was many things (including, notoriously, a…
AI is killing choice and chance – which means changing what it means to be human
The history of humans’ use of technology has always been a history of coevolution. Philosophers…
AI can now learn to manipulate human behaviour
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent…
Hidden in plain sight: The infrastructures that support artificial intelligence
During a walking tour of Queensland’s Daintree rainforest in Australia, a talented guide regularly pointed…