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Can AI understand a flower without being able to touch or smell?

AI may be limited by a lack of taste, touch and smell which prevents it from fully understanding concepts in the same way as humans - suggesting that more advanced models may need to have a robot body

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Should you still learn a second language if AI can translate for you?

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Meta, Amazon and Google accused of 'distorting' key AI rankings

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Housework robots are a step closer as they learn to work in any home

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Chatbots can hide secret messages in seemingly normal conversations

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People are really bad at spotting AI-generated deepfake voices

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AI can forecast the weather in seconds without needing supercomputers

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Cryptography trick could make AI algorithms more efficient

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Is OpenAI hitting a wall with huge and expensive GPT-4.5 model?

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AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved

Questioning a chatbot that has been trained on bestselling books from a particular decade can give researchers a measure of the social biases of that era

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AI-generated optical illusions can sort humans from bots

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Using AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce critical thinking skills

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Dating apps should fix their problems before saddling us with new ones

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Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years

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