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From the climate crisis to personalised medicine, we are applying AI to the world’s major challenges, exploring its ethical dimensions and collaborating with industry to ensure that our research has the greatest impact.

Cambridge launches Institute for Technology and Humanity

21 November 2023

A major interdisciplinary initiative has been launched that aims to meet the challenges and opportunities of new technologies as they emerge, today and far into the future.

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Rusty C3PO

Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge

02 Apr 2009

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Aberystwyth University have created a "robot scientist" which the researchers believe is the first...

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Dr Mate Lengyel 'in search of lost memories'

In search of lost memories

01 Feb 2008

‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. […] And suddenly the memory returns.’ À la Recherche du Temps...

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The game of Go

Modelling uncertainty in the game of Go

01 Feb 2008

Cambridge researchers have analysed millions of patterns of potential moves to model the uncertainty of play in the ancient game of Go.

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Dr Mateja Jamnik

Can machines reason?

01 Feb 2008

Humans often use diagrams for reasoning, but can computers do the same?

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open book pages

Can machines read?

01 Feb 2008

Enabling computers to understand language might help users to overcome online information overload.

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