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From the climate crisis to personalised medicine, we are applying AI to the world’s major challenges, exploring its ethical dimensions and collaborating with industry to ensure that our research has the greatest impact.

Cambridge launches Institute for Technology and Humanity

21 November 2023

A major interdisciplinary initiative has been launched that aims to meet the challenges and opportunities of new technologies as they emerge, today and far into the future.

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AI takes flight to revolutionise forest monitoring

26 Jul 2024

Cambridge researchers are harnessing artificial intelligence to improve how forests are monitored. Associate Professor Dr Emily Lines and Research...

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Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge

Cambridge and SAS launch partnership in AI and advanced analytics to accelerate innovation in the healthcare sector

23 Jul 2024

The Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge and SAS , leaders in data and AI, are launching a partnership aimed at accelerating healthcare...

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Child playing on tablet

AI Chatbots have shown they have an ‘empathy gap’ that children are likely to miss

15 Jul 2024

New study proposes a framework for “Child Safe AI” following recent incidents which revealed that many children see chatbots as quasi-human and...

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Brain on molecular structure, circuitry, and programming code background

Artificial intelligence outperforms clinical tests at predicting progress of Alzheimer’s disease

12 Jul 2024

Cambridge scientists have developed an artificially-intelligent tool capable of predicting in four cases out of five whether people with early signs...

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Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella Typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells

AI able to identify drug-resistant typhoid-like infection from microscopy images in matter of hours

08 Jul 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to identify drug resistant infections, significantly reducing the time taken for a correct diagnosis...

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Chatbot

New open-source platform allows users to evaluate performance of AI-powered chatbots

04 Jun 2024

Researchers have developed a platform for the interactive evaluation of AI-powered chatbots such as ChatGPT.

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Testing the water

30 May 2024

Industry placements for PhD students can be hugely beneficial for all concerned. We hear from two former students and the companies they worked for.

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A visualisation of one of the design scenarios highlighted in the latest paper

Call for safeguards to prevent unwanted ‘hauntings’ by AI chatbots of dead loved ones

09 May 2024

Cambridge researchers lay out the need for design safety protocols that prevent the emerging “digital afterlife industry” causing social and...

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Computer generated image of a human brain

Training AI models to answer ‘what if?’ questions could improve medical treatments

19 Apr 2024

Machines can learn not only to make predictions, but to handle causal relationships. An international research team shows how this could make medical...

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Artificial intelligence beats doctors in accurately assessing eye problems

17 Apr 2024

A study has found that the AI model GPT-4 significantly exceeds the ability of non-specialist doctors to assess eye problems and provide advice.

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Professor Michele Vendruscolo wearing a white lab coat

AI speeds up drug design for Parkinson’s ten-fold

17 Apr 2024

Researchers have used artificial intelligence techniques to massively accelerate the search for Parkinson’s disease treatments.

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AI and scholarship: a manifesto

15 Mar 2024

Two leading academics from the University's School of Humanities and Social Sciences provide a framework that supports scholars and students in...

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