Artificial intelligence stands at odds with the goals of cutting greenhouse emissions. Here’s why

Training an AI model generates as much carbon emissions as it takes to build and drive five cars over their lifetimes.

Kate Saenko, The Conversation

· Dec 18, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Artificial intelligence will need a body to develop a sense of self and reach its full potential

Researchers in the field of developmental robotics are exploring how robots can learn from scratch, like infants.

Mark Lee, The Conversation

· Oct 11, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Can this artificial intelligence program replace writers, journalists and poets?

The language generated by GPT-3 sounds as if it had been written by a human.

Prasenjit Mitra, The Conversation

· Sep 26, 2020 · 09:30 pm

While we still don’t understand how algorithms work, firms are using them to manage staff

AI programme does what its code tells it to do. The problem is this code is rarely available.

Tom Barratt, The Conversation

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Alex Veen, The Conversation

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Caleb Goods, The Conversation

· Aug 26, 2020 · 09:30 pm

The next frontier of human-robot relationships is building trust

The challenging step is to move from ‘I trust the robot to do X’ to ‘I trust the robot.’

Mark Edmonds, The Conversation

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Yixin Zhu, The Conversation

· Aug 07, 2020 · 11:30 pm

There is still one domain which machines can’t take over: Human creativity

Without this unique ability, there would be no poetry, no internet and no space travel.

Tim Schweisfurth, The Conversation

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René Chester Goduscheit, The Conversation

· Feb 15, 2020 · 11:30 pm

No, artificial intelligence won’t start a robocalypse or solve humanity’s fundamental problems

But the hyperbole could set the technology back by decades.

Wim Naudé, The Conversation

· Jul 31, 2019 · 11:30 pm

How a group of researchers trained bees into solving simple maths problems

New research shows the honeybee can use symbols to perform basic maths, including addition and subtraction.

Jair Garcia, The Conversation

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Adrian Dyer, The Conversation

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Scarlett Howard, The Conversation

· Feb 13, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Can artificial intelligence ever keep up with the complicated world of human emotions?

We may never be able to build a machine that can recognise the full diversity of human emotional experience.

Dr Rich Firth-Godbehere

· Jan 12, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Railways develops robot powered by artificial intelligence to check for faults in trains

The robot will take pictures and record videos of the under-gears of trains and send them to engineers for repairs and maintenance.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 27, 2018 · 11:59 am

What the debacle of Amazon’s sexist hiring algorithm reveals about how human bias works

We automatically expect an algorithm to make decisions without discrimination when this is rarely the case with humans.

Maude Lavanchy, The Conversation

· Nov 04, 2018 · 01:30 pm

How Chelsea football club is using Artificial Intelligence for smarter coaching

The best footballers aren’t necessarily the ones with the best physical skills.

Varuna De Silva, The Conversation

· Nov 03, 2018 · 07:00 pm