machine learning

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

Artificial intelligence has the power to eradicate poverty and disease or hasten the end of human civilisation as we know it – according to a speech...

“Do we actually want machines to interact with humans in an emotional way? Will it be possible for them to interact with us?”

Cambridge computer scientists are building computers that read minds – and robots and avatars that express emotion.

Internationally known for his work on information theory, machine learning and novel forms of communication, Professor David MacKay has devoted much...

‘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...