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 created AI algorithms which can wipe the floor with human world champions at both chess and Go. The gam...
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