Half a century ago, a philosopher imagined a world where we could fulfil our desires through digital simulations. He argued we'd prefer reality, but was he right? In a pivotal scene in the movie The ...

His words staggered the erudite audience gathered at a technology conference in Oxford last summer. Professor Henry Markram, a doctor-turned-computer engineer, announced that his team would create the ...

Machines that can think for themselves - and perhaps turn on their creators as a result - have long been a fascination of science fiction. And creating robots that can learn without any input from ...

Scientists from the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) have overseen an experiment to see how humans and the new generation of smart machines can partner to change the way that ...

SCIENTISTS have built the world’s first time machine — sort of. Working with electrons in the bizarre realm of quantum mechanics, they first created the equivalent of a break for a game of pool. The ...

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being used in decision making. Web companies, car-sharing services, and courts rely on algorithms to supply content, set prices, and estimate recidivism ...

Overview: Clear problem definitions prevent wasted effort and keep machine learning work focused.Clean, well-understood data ...

I am not a data scientist. And while I know my way around a Jupyter notebook and have written a good amount of Python code, I do not profess to be anything close to a machine learning expert. So when ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...