If algorithms could tell voters which candidates best match their views, would it improve or reduce engagement in elections (Credit: Alamy)
Machine Minds
How voting could get easier
By Frank Swain
There are some who fear that as children learn to rely upon AI-powered smart writing systems, their vocabulary and spelling may suffer (Credit: Alamy)
Machine Minds
How autosuggest affects your brain
By Anne McCarthy
Border guards are not known for their sympathetic attitude, but increasing reliance upon artificial intelligence could make reasoning with them even harder (Credit: Getty)
Machine Minds
The border guards you can’t reason with
By Molly Kendrick
Forensics officers spend hours and even days scouring crime scenes for clues but new technology can help to link these to other crimes (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The key to solving crime?
By Chris Baraniuk
Shifting winds, different types of vegetation and rainfall patterns can make it difficult to predict the paths that wildfires will take (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
A way to tackle wildfires
By Abigail Beall
Using artificial intelligence to predict where and when conflicts might escalate could help peacekeepers intervene sooner (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The key to world peace?
Online bullies can target people from behind a veil of anonymity provided by the internet while victims can face hatred from complete strangers (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The best way to stop bullies?
By Sarah Griffiths
Eavesdropping on the calls of forest elephants could help give an early warning to problems amoung groups of these endangered animals (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
What links AI and elephants?
By Rachel Nuwer
Humans often only realise something is wrong with them when they feel symptoms, but artificial intelligence can detect the warning signs far earlier (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The signs of disease no one can see
By Leah Kaminsky
Artificial intelligence can predict whether a couple's future together is likely to be long-lasting (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
How your voice betrays a doomed romance
By Martha Henriques
Knowing what to do with those pesky leftover mince pies can be tricky after eating several rounds of them in the run up to Christmas (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
An alien brain cooking Christmas dinner
By Richard Gray
Many experts believe machines will not only be composing music but also performing it within the next decade or so (Credit: Alamy)
In Depth
Sweet sounding music from a hard drive
By Sarah Griffiths
Soaring numbers of cars and lorries on roads around the world is creating a headache for motorists as they find themselves stuck in traffic jams (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
Is this the end of traffic jams?
By Francesca Baker
New imaging techniques, combined with advanced machine vision tools, are helping to transform efforts to decipher ancient languages like Proto-Elamite (Credit: British Museum)
Machine Minds
The key to unlocking ancient languages?
By Sophie Hardach
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