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You’ve seen this before: a truck unloading robot that’s made up of a mobile base with an arm on it that drives up into the back of a trailer and then uses suction to grab stacked boxes and put them onto a conveyor belt. We’ve written about a couple of the companies doing this, and there are even more out there. It’s easy to understand why—trailer unloading involves a fairly structured and controlled environment with a very repetitive task, it’s a hard job that

Dramatic prices | Double declutching | Soho House tip | The ageing art of photo manipulation | Rothschild retortI understand the concern about ticket prices for the theatre, but is it really “becoming the pursuit of a moneyed elite” (Editorial, 1 March)? West End prices compare reasonably with Premier League football tickets, and you can still be a groundling for superb plays at Shakespeare’s Globe for just £5.
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This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they don’t truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it’s already having profound consequencesYou can listen to Black Box here.Thanks to Michael Wooldridge – his book is called The Road to Consci