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
Tapping into the nerves that control the heart could allow a range of conditions to be monitored and treated (Credit: Getty Images)
Machine Minds
How to hack the human heart
By Gemma Church
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
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
Artist Maja Petric and computer scientist Mihai Jalobeanu trained an AI algorithm to look for images that typified aspects of climate change (Credit: Maja Petric)
Machine Minds
Climate change as you've never seen it
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
Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania, but is not well served by popular auto-translation tools (Credit: Seyllou/Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The languages that defy auto-translate
By Sophie Hardach
Artificial minds may have very different experiences, needs and desires to our own (Credit: Noel Celis/Getty Images)
Machine Minds
The monster that you should let eat you
By Richard Fisher
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
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