In these articles and podcast we explore how agency is what distinguishes us humans from intelligent machines, and how machines might be taught to behave more like we do.

In this podcast we find out why true artificial intelligence will only become possible once machines have something that babies are born with: agency.

In this podcast find out the basics of machine learning, and why time travel and immortality might be easier to achieve than human level artificial intelligence.

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.

How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.

Mathematicians are helping to develop an AI tool to help with diagnosing COVID-19 and making prognoses for infected patients.

What is a particle phenomenologist?

Should machines be allowed to make decisions that impact people's lives?

Will sophisticated algorithms one day replace mathematicians?

Find out how a little bit of maths can enable a machine to learn from experience.

Chess computers were one of the first step towards developing a form of AI. Here's a brief history.

What is artificial intelligence and is it here yet?