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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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The uncertain unicycle that taught itself and how it’s helping AI make good decisions

14 Feb 2018

Cambridge researchers are pioneering a form of machine learning that starts with only a little prior knowledge and continually learns from the world...

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Cambridge Cluster

Cambridge and AI: what makes this city a good place to start a business?

13 Feb 2018

What makes a city as small as Cambridge a hotbed for AI and machine learning start-ups? A critical mass of clever people obviously helps. But there’s...

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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast: what’s next for thinking machines?

06 Feb 2018

Our lives are already enhanced by AI – or at least an AI in its infancy – with technologies using algorithms that help them to learn from our...

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Preparing for the future: artificial intelligence and us

02 Feb 2018

Today we begin a month-long focus on research related to artificial intelligence. Here, four researchers reflect on the power of a technology to...

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Toothpaste

AI 'scientist' finds that toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria

18 Jan 2018

An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant...

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Members of the audience take pictures as President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting moderated by CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. April 20, 2011

Opinion: What can we learn about you from just one click?

14 Nov 2017

How effective is psychological targeting in advertising? Dr Sandra Matz, a former PhD student at Cambridge now based at Columbia University, and her...

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Haiti Earthquake

Machine learning used to predict earthquakes in a lab setting

23 Oct 2017

A group of researchers from the UK and the US have used machine learning techniques to successfully predict earthquakes. Although their work was...

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Deckard

Opinion: Could we build a Blade Runner-style 'replicant'?

05 Oct 2017

Could replicants ever be a reality? In this article from The Conversation , Fumiya Iida (Department of Engineering) discusses what it would take to...

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Celebrity Twitter accounts display ‘bot-like’ behaviour

02 Aug 2017

‘Celebrity’ Twitter accounts – those with more than 10 million followers – display more bot-like behaviour than users with fewer followers, according...

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Science fiction vs science fact: World’s leading AI experts come to Cambridge

10 Jul 2017

Some of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) will gather in Cambridge this week to look at...

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Sheep

Researchers design AI system to assess pain levels in sheep

01 Jun 2017

An artificial intelligence system designed by researchers at the University of Cambridge is able to detect pain levels in sheep, which could aid in...

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Centre for the Future of Intelligence joins international coalition for safe and beneficial AI

16 May 2017

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), a Cambridge-based research Centre exploring the nature and impact of Artificial...

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