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We built a mean game to test AI's ability to apologise
If you're struggling to say you're sorry, AI is happy to help. But can robots handle social intelligence? To find out, we put their apologies to the test.I want to apologise. Over the past few weeks, I subjected my co-workers, family and friends to a rather deceitful social experiment. With the help of some psychology researchers, I manufactured a ...
The Future of Heat – The 2 Billion Tonne Carbon Challenge!
In my recent presentation at the Future of Heat conference in Birmingham, I made a call to arms to act now on heat. We simply cannot wait for ‘silver bullet’ technologies to take away our problems when we have the technology now to do something about it! Through building an efficient, low temperature, digitally linked system significant decarbo...
Smart cities have a big future - if people are smart, too
The idea of the city dates back almost 10,000 years. About 2,000 years ago, Alexandria and Rome might have been the first to be home to a million people. Alexandria, of course, was home to the ancient world’s most famous library; founded around 283 BCE, it sought to “collect all the books in the world.” Rome was ...
Materials Science: The Unsung Hero
Few recognize the vast implications of materials science.To build today’s smartphone in the 1980s, it would cost about $110 million, require nearly 200 kilowatts of energy, and the device would be 14 meters tall, according to Applied Materials CTO Omkaram Nalamasu.That's the power of materials advances. Materials science has democratized smartpho...
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The 'bias machine': How Google tells you what you want to hear
We're at the mercy of Google." Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world – even when they're asking the same question.Type in "Is Kamala Harris a good Democratic candidate", and Google paints a rosy picture. Search results are constantly changing, but last week, the first link was a Pew Resear...
Technology
The events of 2020 have turned most predictions for 2021 on their head. Top trends such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) will still define the ways in which tech reshapes our lives in the next year. However, the most significant use cases now involve helping us to adapt and survive in the changing times we are living...
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Industry
Ever been inside a building where your phone seems to enter witness protection? No signal, no data, no explanation—until you step back outside and everything suddenly works again. Whether it’s an office tower, a hospital, or the warehouse you can’t afford to lose contact in, modern spaces often create the exact conditions where connectivity f...
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The Future Food System is a productive, zero-waste eco-system that mimics nature. A group of us spent an incredible Friday night with the no-waste advocate and visionary himself; Joost Bakker eagerly learning about the house’s sustainable concepts and systems. From learning how soil is the foundation of life, how wicking beds that harvest rainwat...
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News
Imagine the scene: you're at home with your family and your phone starts pinging... people you know are warning you about something they've seen about you on social media.It's not the best feeling.In my case, it was a screenshot, apparently taken from Elon Musk's chatbot Grok, although I couldn't verify it, placing me on a list of the worst spreade...
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