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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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Life

Ancient humans: What we know and still don’t know about them

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Life

Mud DNA means we can detect ancient humans even without fossils

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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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Life

Chimps pass on sponge drinking trick like a family tradition

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Humans

First Americans may have been Neanderthals 130,000 years ago

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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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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

Memories, personality, behaviour – there are many things we might use to define individuals. But digging deeper reveals a more unexpected source of the self

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Humans

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

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Life

Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes

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Life

Apes can see things from your perspective and help you out

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Synthetic humans help computers understand how real people act

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