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Why curbing chatbots' worst exploits is a game of whack-a-mole

AI companies are trying to impose safety measures on their chatbots, while researchers are finding ways around them all the time. Where will this end, asks Alex Wilkins

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Digital Human Brain Covered with Networks

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Why AIs that tackle complex maths could be the next big breakthrough

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PPN7WJ Cologne, Germany. 27th Sep 2018. 27 September 2018, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: Visitors to the Supercandy Pop-Up Museum make selfies in a ball bath. Until 30.12.2018 the 20 walk-in installations can be seen and experienced in the

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Banning smartphones is tempting but it won't solve anxiety in children

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Showing AI just 1000 extra images reduced AI-generated stereotypes

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Why our ageing world could accelerate progress in AI and robotics

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Implantable battery is charged up by the body's oxygen supply

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Coloured ultrasound scan of the abdomen of a pregnant female patient, showing a healthy nine week old foetus in the womb. At this age the foetus is about 5 cm long and weighs about 10 g.

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We should be open about organoid research to avoid a backlash

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The Future author Naomi Alderman: 'We wake up terrified of the future'

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The Future author Naomi Alderman: 'We wake up terrified of the future'

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Camouflage inspired by leaves can hide things in visible and infrared

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The gold hydrogen rush: Does Earth contain near-limitless clean fuel?

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The gold hydrogen rush: Does Earth contain near-limitless clean fuel?

Prospectors around the world are scrambling to find reserves of "gold hydrogen", a naturally occurring fuel that burns without producing carbon dioxide. But how much is really out there and how easy is it to tap into?

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Wearable device monitors tumour size and displays it in an app

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I'm teaching again after 20 years away. The tech is pure absurdity

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NASA unveils X-59 plane to test supersonic flight over US cities

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Read an extract from The Future by Naomi Alderman

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