A faustian fable

Robert Hutton says many people fail to grasp the real nature of artificial intelligence

The technology-led US stockmarket has hit another record peak. There are rumours of stonking pay packages for software developers in Silicon Valley. One of the leading tech behemoths has just achieved

AI, literary theory and traditional storytelling

I spent one of the first weeks of my summer doing something I haven’t done in years: writing computer code. As a professor, when I want to generate data, I usually have the luxury of telling my studen

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AI could mean that human-caused pan-c demics are five times more likely than they were just a year ago, according to a study of top experts. The data echoes concerns raised in r

Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland recently taught the one-armed, four-legged ANYmal search and rescue robot to play badminton against a human. Fans of the sport may be relieved to learn that AN