Covid-19 has shown it is time to invest in Britain's scientists
But 2020 saw an advance in science which is even more exciting and important. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting a bad press lately. Stories proliferate of how “algorithms” have led to bad decisions. The fiasco over the A-level results in August for example. It has streams of Luddite detractors at a more intellectual level. They assert, for example, that it can never really think like a human. The Deep Mind team at Google are famous, in some circles at least, for having cre...
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