Artificial Intelligence

Subscribe and review: Acast, Apple, Spotify, SoundCloud, AudioBoom, Mixcloud. Join the discussion on Facebook, Twitter or email us at chipspodcast@theguardian.com. In April 2017, the US Department of Defense launched an Algorithmic Warfare…
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The financial services industry is using a combination of robotics process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI), and business process automation to bolster global revenues and customer satisfaction, according to Thursday report…
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Read The Big Apple just got an extended shelf life. Suicide Club, by debut Singaporean novelist Rachel Heng, is the story of a future New York in which life expectancy averages 300 years and people are struggling to stay alive for ever.…
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Imagine two typical problems facing a home improvement project: a carpenter trying to find just the right nail quickly in a big-box store and getting more frustrated with every passing minute; his customer trying to picture just how an…
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The U.S. department of labor forecasts that the healthcare industry will add 4 million new jobs by 2016.That should be a daunting prospect for anyone working in that industry — particularly given that the rising cost of healthcare (18…
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Wield a scalpel under expert direction, discover in a new book how beavers will transform our planet, and join a debate to choose what other worlds to settle Read Journalist Ben Goldfarb thinks we have got beavers all wrong, and in Eager:…
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Bees surround the invading hornet and roast it aliveTakahashi/Wikipedia Commons By Josh HowgegoWhen hornets attack, bees know what to do. A few hundred workers can swarm into balls around hornets and roast them alive with their body heat.…
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Robots and AI may still struggle with many tasks that humans find simple, but they're trouncing humans when it comes to games. Whether it's the ancient Chinese board game Go or the classic arcade game Breakout, machines have been taught to…
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