Pattern recognition

Despite advances in many spheres, the use of AI still has a long way to go to embrace human values or true creativity.

Higher education in the age of AI

Asking ChatGPT – a bot which scrapes the internet to compile conversational answers using artificial intelligence – about the future of artificial intelligence unsurprisingly suggests that artificial intelligence will be the next big thing.

AI has its aisles on you

Whether you like it or not, retailers are using CCTV and AI analysis to track your shopping behaviour and maximise sales by changing store layouts accordingly.

Robots can’t do everything

Rather than thinking about how we can simplify cities to accommodate robots, we need robots that work in existing urban environments in all their diversity and complexity.

The art of AI

A range of powerful text-to-image generators on the internet use artificial intelligence and sampled images to instantly produce art – or eerie deep fakes.

And how are you Hal?

The latest chatbot on the web doesn’t pass the Turing test, and certainly isn’t “intelligent”, but does show the growing potential of AI interactions with people.

Inventive AI?

The question of whether artificial intelligence can be creative is open to debate, but artificial intelligence has already invented products and solutions for people.

What would AI do?

Will humans be able to control the machines it creates with artificial intelligence once that intelligence is programmed to learn for itself and make its own decisions?

AI takes on the great game

Computers have beat any human at chess, and now AI may be able to outperform humans at the great game of diplomacy.

A world of 250 million robots

Robots will shape the cities of the future — from educating children, to cleaning streets, to protecting borders from military threats and much more.

Silicon in the sand

AI is not just a technological novelty, but a strategic priority for every country with the resources to invest in it. AI dominance is a goal of the United States, China and Russia, and some reports assert that whoever achieves AI dominance in the next few years will ‘rule the world’.

The future of autonomous vehicles

Manufacturers of autonomous vehicles will have to complement their focus on technology with a strong understanding of the social and human challenges involved in changing our transport system.