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Ray Kurzweil and other experts clash over AI’s future in new books

To understand the power – and limitations – of artificial intelligence, we need information, not hype. Alex Wilkins explores what four new books, from Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, Neil Lawrence and Shannon Vallor, offer

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USA. Nevada. Las Vegas airport. 1982

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New psychology book reckons with separating solitude from loneliness

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Personnel of the World class Danish restaurant Noma works in the kichten on May 31, 2021 in Copenhagen. - While the six-month Covid-19 closure has been tough for Noma, consistently ranked as one of the world's top restaurants, it's also been an opportunity to reinvent its cuisine. As it reopened this June, the restaurant has reworked its menu -- in part to take the lack of foreign tourists into account. (Photo by Thibault Savary / AFP) (Photo by THIBAULT SAVARY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Arielle Johnson digs into the science of flavour in her tasty new book

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Sting film still (2024)

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Darkly comic sci-fi chiller sees a pet spider turn fast-growing hunter

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Male artist, painting a new creative painting in his art studio

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Creativity's origins are probably too complex for simple explanations

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Mammals,28-04-2024,Heat,5 - Heat,Elephants, Zebra and Springbok gather in high densities at one of the dwindling waterholes in Etosha Salt pan, Namibia. ,BBC Studios,Screen Grab

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Attenborough dominates our pick of 2024's best documentaries to date

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MINING - West Pole Beacon.

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The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music

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Illustration of life forms on a hypothetical planet with a slightly lower mass than the Earth. It has shallow seas and extreme tides due to its large moon (thin crescent at left). The vegetation is translucent which allows the light to shine through, so it seems to be glowing, due to it being backlit in this image.

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The hunt for alien planets and extraterrestrial life

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Sarah Perry's Enlightenment is a moving story of love and astronomy

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Eastern Hermann's tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) hatching from egg. Captive, occurs in South East Europe.

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Why eggs should be front and centre in the story of evolution

From large and shell-covered to tiny and jelly-like, the developmental story of eggs offers a way to rethink the story of life, says Jules Howard in his new book Infinite Life

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Joel Edgerton must escape the multiverse in a gripping sci-fi series

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The "science of weird shit" and making sense of the paranormal

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Johann Hari's compelling but flawed look at the new weight-loss drugs

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A radical new book sets out to hunt for 'pure consciousness'

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