People having relationships with AI bots could hinder humans’ ability to find real partners, experts warn
Psychologists say it is becoming increasingly commonplace for people to develop intimate, long-term relationships with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies…
A week after catastrophic earthquake, focus turns to a growing humanitarian crisis in Myanmar
Search teams in Myanmar recovered more bodies from the ruins of buildings on Friday, a week after a massive earthquake killed more than 3,100 people, as the focus turns toward the urgent humanitarian needs in a country already devastated by a continuing civil war…
Palestinians Are Invisible to Mike Huckabee. To Trump, He’s Perfect.
Last week’s Senate confirmation hearing for former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be Donald Trump’s ambassador to Israel contained one astonishing moment that no one seems to have noticed. Responding (or rather trying to avoid responding) to a question from Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen about whether Palestinians living in the West Bank should have…
More immigrants face deportation: What due process are they owed?
As the Trump administration claims broad authority to deport “alien enemies” and others, questions rise about whether immigrants have rights in court…
How the ‘manosphere’ spreads through online gaming, influencers and algorithms
The Netflix series Adolescence has generated discussions about masculinity, male violence and the effect of “manosphere” content on boys. The manosphere is a collection of men’s rights and misogynistic groups that are interconnected through websites, blogs and forums that promote masculinity, misogyny and opposition to feminism…
Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans, new study suggests
Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality: the ability to combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of its units and the way they are combined…
Inside Amazon’s robot-powered warehouse
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at Amazon’s robot-powered Swindon warehouse to see how AI and humans are working together. We examine the state of open source licensing and find out how it’s affecting datacentre operators. And we visit a 130-year-old wine and drinks company to find out how technology has…
Why are monkeys better at yodelling than humans? It’s all in the membrane
Human yodellers can switch up and down an octave, but monkeys have a 3½-octave range. Researchers have just discovered why that is…