Ahead of a highly anticipated derby, the manager of one of the teams, ‘the Poirot of football’, asks an artificial intelligence programme to draw up a sort of match plan. The story of a true event

There may well be more authors writing by hand, but fewer writing with their feet, and they will do so the old-fashioned way – albeit more labour-intensive – because they will be writing for fun. Ideas

Conditioned reflexes: not ours regarding AI, but those of a Nobel Peace Prize laureate speaking about AI. “Data matters,” he says, provided it is interpreted correctly – that is, in his own way. 

Chip manufacturers fund the companies that buy their products, fuelling investment and sales. But if revenues prove insufficient to sustain growth, public procurement and incentives could shift part of the risk onto taxpayers

Small AI models could be just a few months away from being able to replicate themselves on low-cost connected devices. What are these low-cost devices? Almost anything: from smart ovens or fridges to unbranded Android set-top boxes, with no central infrastructure to shut down