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Living with artificial intelligence: how do we get it right?

28 Feb 2018

Powerful AI needs to be reliably aligned with human values. Does this mean that AI will eventually have to police those values? Cambridge...

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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast: what’s next for thinking machines?

06 Feb 2018

Our lives are already enhanced by AI – or at least an AI in its infancy – with technologies using algorithms that help them to learn from our...

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"Mini Stack" Interchange of Interstate 10, Loop 202, and State Route 51 at Night (2)

New brain mapping technique highlights relationship between connectivity and IQ

02 Jan 2018

A new and relatively simple technique for mapping the wiring of the brain has shown a correlation between how well connected an individual’s brain...

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Elephant body awareness tast

Elephants’ ‘body awareness’ adds to increasing evidence of their intelligence

12 Apr 2017

Asian elephants are able to recognise their bodies as obstacles to success in problem-solving, further strengthening evidence of their intelligence...

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Artificial intelligence: computer says YES (but is it right?)

20 Oct 2016

Computers that learn for themselves are with us now. As they become more common in ‘high-stakes’ applications like robotic surgery, terrorism...

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Opinion: Can genes really predict how well you’ll do academically?

26 Jul 2016

Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses whether DNA can predict our educational achievement.

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Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded in controversy

21 Apr 2016

Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses the concept of intelligence and the drive to identify and quantify it.

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Bataclan Paris attacks memorial

Opinion: Governments should turn to academics for advice on radicalisation, religion and security

03 Dec 2015

Tristram Riley-Smith (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses how universities and academics can add insight and depth to...

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Supercomputer

The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre to study AI and the future of humanity

03 Dec 2015

The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities...

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Mitrokhin’s KGB archive opens to public

07 Jul 2014

KGB files from the famous Mitrokhin Archive – described by the FBI as ‘the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source’ –...

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Research reveals how elephants 'see' the world

28 Aug 2013

Designed with middle school students, study helps to inform better practices for protecting these endangered animals.

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The Lyubyanka - Former KGB Headquarters.

Behind the curtain: a history of Russian intelligence

11 May 2013

Ahead of his talk at the Hay Festival, Jonathan Haslam discusses his forthcoming history of Soviet intelligence organisations, revealing, among other...

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