Algorithms workers can’t see are increasingly pulling the management strings
“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” HAL’s cold, if polite, refusal to open the pod bay doors in 2001 A Space Odyssey has...
New research shows five ways in which deepfakes are brilliant business opportunities
A visitor to The Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida presses a doorbell beside a dark life-sized screen. A darkened figure wearing a dapper...
Will artificial intelligence ever rival human creativity?
The European Patent Office recently turned down an application for a patent that described a food container. This was not because the invention was not novel...
Workplace surveillance is becoming the norm; an expert explains a realistic way of handling it
Workplace surveillance sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but we are having to get used to it. In a sign of the times, the...
Meet the Xenobot: World’s first living, programmable organism
A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”.
This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their...