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Rodney Brooks, one of the world’s leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers of the last 20 years, has recently written an article pointing out that popular expectations for the rate of progress in AI research are running far ahead of reality...
When the technology we rely on makes mistakes, what should we do? It feels like a simple question with a simple answer: if the technology is wrong, it needs fixing, and then it will be right again. But this black-and-white...
Last year, Beauty.AI held an online beauty contest, but with a twist: it was “judged by robots”. Beauty.AI was going to be scientific. Rather than using the judgements of fallible human judges, the beauty of the participants would be established...
Politics has always been an arena for disagreement and heated arguments, and this sometimes results in insults directed at elected officials – but over the last couple of years this has become magnified following the advent of social media. Indeed,...
The internet has changed everything. We shop online, work online, and entertain ourselves online; we find jobs and partners online. It’s even changed the way we interact with our political leaders – you only have to check Twitter at around...
The surprise election result has produced a lot of early responses, which offer avenues for more detailed research. Amongst these have been suggestions that Labour activist groups made effective use of social media campaigning. Research conducted into the party’s support...
Of all the lessons learned from the election result, two in particular have the potential to re-shape future campaigns. The first is the power of social media. The second is the alleged death of the negative attack-style campaign, in favour...
It is tempting to think of social media as a great enabler of democratic participation. Online platforms lower the bar to contacting politicians; you don’t need to attend a surgery or craft an email to your MP if you know...
If we learned anything from the surprise election results of 2016, it was that disaffected voters seemed keen to ‘take back control’ from elites. But recent allegations by Carole Cadwalladr for the Observer suggest that voters may have been taking...
