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Google's Project Loon helium balloons were intended to bring internet access to remote parts of the world (Credit: Loon)
Machine Minds

How this balloon surprised its creators

By Chris Baraniuk

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?

Future
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

Future
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
Illustration of neural networks in a human head (Credit: Alamy)
Machine Minds

Why AI is incomprehensible

By David Beer
Robot hands typing on a keyboard (Credit: Alamy)
Machine Minds

The chatbots that say they can feel

By Zaria Gorvett
There's mounting concern that misogyny towards AI voice assistants might spill over to affect real humans in the metaverse (Credit: Alamy)
Machine Minds

Is your voice assistant sexist?

By Chris Baraniuk
If we are to adopt self-driving vehicles it will require people to trust the technology entirely – will that be a good thing? (Credit: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images)
Machine Minds

Have we evolved to trust machines?

By Chris Baraniuk

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