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Artificial intelligence is being asked to predict the future of AI

Artificial intelligence model predictions from historical data on how AI research would develop over five years matched reality with more than 99 per cent accuracy – soon they will be asked what comes next

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Mind-reading AI works out what you are thinking from brain scans

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Human hibernation sounds fanciful, but it may now be saving lives

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Meta’s text-to-audio AI can create common sounds and generate music

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AI can tell which buildings are energy efficient from the outside

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A series of hominoid crania (counterclockwise from the L): juvenile Australopithecus, adult Australopithecus, adult chimpanzee, juvenile chimpanzee, adult Homo erectus (center). Specimens photographed at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

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Our ancestors’ prenatal growth sped up after we split from chimps

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Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

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Nobel prize awarded for study of human evolution using ancient DNA

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A third of scientists working on AI say it could cause global disaster

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 13: A general view ahead of the stocktake plenary on day 14 during COP26 at SECC on November 13, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. On day fourteen of the 2021 COP26 climate summit in Glasgow the focus is on delegations' negotiations to agree the final text for the COP26 Agreement.

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AI climate negotiators can debate 100 years worth of policy in seconds

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Weight loss advice isn't based on good evidence

The orthodoxy in most high income countries is that anyone with a body mass index (BMI) of 25 or more is overweight, but evidence suggests the cut-off point should be a fair bit higher, writes Clare Wilson

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AI that can see pain in a mouse's face could aid drug development

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DeepMind AI learns to play soccer using decades of match simulations

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Outdated research on HRT is letting people down

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Scientific illustrations illuminate work by Galileo, Einstein and more

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