The system can distinguish between types of behaviour and incoming information, says Dr Horvitz.

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Sir John and Dr Horvitz also showed that an important part of the development process was the genetically programmed death of certain cells.

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By controlling the flow of information, it should be possible to increase the amount of information people can absorb without overloading them, says Dr Horvitz.

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Augmented cognition promises to be a different story, insists Eric Horvitz, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, and president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

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"Alerts about a downstream risk of cholera could have been issued nearly a year in advance, " wrote researchers Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research, and Kira Radinsky, PhD student at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

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The system is surprisingly accurate, says Dr Horvitz.

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