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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

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Huge dose of brain chemical dopamine may have made us smart

Two “thinking” regions of human brains are much richer in a neurotransmitter called dopamine than the equivalent brain regions in apes and monkeys

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Future by design: Will the power of AI reshape our world?

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An African forest elephant in a woodland setting in Loango National Park, Gabon.

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What’s the best way to scare an elephant? Use an AI scarecrow

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Man walks past weapons

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Why we should build AI that sometimes disobeys our commands

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Ancient skull from China may rewrite the origins of our species

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AI binges on CSI crime shows and learns to guess whodunnit

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Sheep learn to recognise celebrity faces from different angles

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Visual trick fools AI into thinking a turtle is really a rifle

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Visual trick fools AI into thinking a turtle is really a rifle

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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What the controversial ‘human’ teeth fossils really tell us

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Artificial intelligence tells nightmare-inducing tales of terror

The Shelley AI is writing its own horror stories after learning from reddit. Some are weird, some are spine tingling, and others? Well, see for yourself...

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AlphaGo's AI upgrade gets round the need for human input

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Natural history books that look inside the minds of animals

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We urgently need to broaden the conversation on AI

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How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy

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