Artificial intelligence

Companies and hundreds of researchers of the field meet in a scientific conference in August in Helsinki.

More and more jobs are threatened by advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. As the graphs below illustrate, Europe is not prepared for this dislocation

“I do not believe in the mass unemployment scenario,” Andrus Ansip tells industry heads

In Brussels, France and Finland, the challenge automation poses for employment is starting to be taken seriously. But MEPs have rejected a proposal to make owners pay social security for their robots

Three winners will be chosen at the TED conference in 2020

At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week there is no little excitement – and some fretting – over the rise of smart machines

The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence.

Scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have managed to build a fully functional neuron by using organic bioelectronics. This artificial neuron contain no ‘living’ parts, but is capable of mimicking the function of a human nerve cell and communicate in the same way as our own neurons do.

A group of German researchers give limited intelligence to a well-known computer figure