A recent study applies artificial intelligence to imaging analysis of CT brain scans.
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What’s Next: Predicting the Top Scientific Breakthroughs of 2018
Despite a successful 2017, with reports of a genetically modified human embryo and vast improvements in machine learning, 2018 is poised to be even bigger.
Is Democracy Dying?
The free world stands at a crossroads. Are recent technological advances such as big data, artificial intelligence and cybernetics affecting our current democratic institutions?
Deep Learning AI effectively diagnoses Tuberculosis
Doctors develop AI that diagnoses tuberculosis with 96 percent accuracy, and may lead to improved screening and better treatment success rates
Interviewing Murray Shanahan – Ex Machina’s scientific advisor
Artificial Intelligence expert Professor Shanahan talks about the 2015 sci-fi film he helped inform, and discusses the future of AI.
Google’s A.I. Masters New Game
A.I. Milestone Reached as Google Robot beats European Champion of the game Go, also known as Weiqi.
Designing objects for human interaction on long-duration space flights
Anne Petzold finds that robots might help long space flights just by being good company
Achieving singularity
Tim Ellis examines how neuroimaging could lead to engineering an artificial human brain through advancing our understanding of consciousness
I,Science short audio fiction: The Turing Test
Rory Galloway reads his short story, “The Turing Test”
Who am I? – Is free will an illusion?
What is consciousness? Who or what is the ‘me’ that I call my ‘self’? And does that ‘self’ control what I do, or is that an illusion?
Passing the Turing test and more
Themes of the last fortnight have included passing the Turing test and Space science …
From man to machine
We may soon be merging our minds with computers and the internet to create a ‘singularity’ of consciousness …
Counting chimp
Are we really the most intelligent creatures on Earth? In at least one area, chimps have the upper hand …
Man, Remade
Are we on the brink of a future society, or already living in one? Michael Cook looks at the relationship between human and machine. Back in 1998 Kevin Warwick, now Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, underwent an operation to have an RFID chip inserted into his own body, a small piece of […]
Review: The Hunt for AI
Watson plays Jeopardy! Horizon: The Hunt for AI BBC HD, 3 April 2012 As the stern grandfather of the BBC’s science output, Horizon is as topical as ever with its latest programme exploring the search for artificial intelligence. In reference to all things brainy, modern-day mathematician and Professor of Public Understanding of Science Marcus du […]
Podcast: An Audience With Cleverbot
Cleverbot was recently judged to be 59% human, whatever that might mean. In honour of this achievement, Imogen Ogilvie, Jennifer Whyntie, and Jade Hoffman cornered him for a chat. An Audience With Cleverbot by iscience
Podcast: “You. Tickle. Me.”
Primitive AI or just clever tricks? And what’s the difference anyway? Sacha Thorpe and Elliot Black sit down with a Furby to ask just that. An Interview with a Furby by iscience Image: flickr | blamethecrane
Robo-revolution
As computers have become more developed and intricate they have been given responsibility for many tasks that people used to carry out. However, how close are we to them taking over everything we do, resulting in a Hollywood-esque robotic revolution? Turing intelligence Scientists have been asking this question for a very long time. The famous […]