Touchscreens, conveyor belts: McDonald’s opens first largely automated location (2022)
Test restaurant near Fort Worth, Texas, has drawn ire of activists calling for living wage
Digital Future
Automation
Computers need to make a quantum leap before they can crack encrypted messages (2023)
Quantum Computing
Guardian: Is this by Rothko or a robot? We ask the experts to tell the difference between human and AI art (2023)
Digital Assistants
Can artificial intelligence really help us talk to the animals? (2022)
‘Our notion of privacy will be useless’: what happens if technology learns to read our minds? (2021)
Augmentation
Theoretical physicist Chiara Marletto: ‘The universal constructor could revolutionise civilisation’ (2021)
DeepMind AI cracks 50-year-old problem of protein folding
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Machine Learning
From viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects (2020)
We’re still a long way from making a quantum leap in web code-breaking (2020)
Rise of the machines: who is the ‘internet of things’ good for? (2017)
Internet of Things
The Guardian view on machine learning: a computer cleverer than you? (2019)