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Chatbot challenges will make AIs discuss the latest news

Voice assistants and text chatbots have mastered simple tasks, but now contests will get them to engage in much more complicated conversations

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How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain

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How to usher in an AI future with gain rather than pain

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A chimp holding a leaf, possibly drinking from it

Life

Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

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A replica of the skull of Homo naledi

Life

Mystery human species Homo naledi had tiny but advanced brain

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Screenshot from the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge

Technology

AI learns to play video game from instructions in plain English

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Humans

Your true self: The future is a foreign person

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Humans

Your true self: Why it’s morals that make the human

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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Octopuses seem to have special gene editing powers

Life

Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes

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Orangutan watches man place something in a yellow box

Life

Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out

Chimps, bonobos and orangutans help humans when they look for objects in the wrong place - showing they can tell when others believe something that's false

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Technology

Synthetic humans help computers understand how real people act

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Technology

MRI brain scans train machines to see the world more like us

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Life

Inside knowledge: What's really going on in the minds of animals

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Life

Inside knowledge: Why we like to know useless stuff

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