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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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Humans need not apply

05 Jul 2018

Will automation, AI and robotics mean a jobless future, or will their productivity free us to innovate and explore? Is the impact of new technologies...

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Cambridge and Nokia Bell Labs establish new research centre to advance AI-supported multi-sensory personal devices

20 Jun 2018

The long-sought dream of wearable and mobile devices that will interpret, replicate and influence people’s emotions and perceptions will soon be a...

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Live demonstration of Social Robotics in Wellcome Collections' Friday Late Spectacular - Body Language Event, 4 Nov. 2016 (19:00-23:00), Euston, London, UK

Evolving with the robots

25 May 2018

Demystifying how social and human-like robots work is vital so that we can understand and shape how they will affect our future, Dr Hatice Gunes will...

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Cambridge receives £10 million in funding for new AI supercomputer

27 Apr 2018

The UK’s fastest academic supercomputer, based at the University of Cambridge, will be made available to artificial intelligence (AI) technology...

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Living with artificial intelligence: how do we get it right?

28 Feb 2018

Powerful AI needs to be reliably aligned with human values. Does this mean that AI will eventually have to police those values? Cambridge...

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Helping police make custody decisions using artificial intelligence

26 Feb 2018

Police at the “front line” of difficult risk-based judgements are trialling an AI system trained by University of Cambridge criminologists to give...

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In tech we trust?

23 Feb 2018

Fairness, trust and transparency are qualities we usually associate with organisations or individuals. Today, these attributes might also apply to...

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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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