by John Wyatt December 10, 2020 Number of comments0 Briefing: AI and digital technologies Below is a briefing paper I prepared on recent developments in artificial intelligence and digital technologies, as well as someContinue Reading
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 Review: ‘The Technological Singularity’ by Murray Shanahan Shanahan is Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College London, and writes with authority and clarity about the possibility ofContinue Reading
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 Review: ‘The Technology Trap – Capital, Labour and Power in the Age of Automation’ by Carl Benedikt Frey Carl Frey is an economist at Oxford University where he directs the Future of Work programme at the Oxford MartinContinue Reading
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 Review: ‘Hello World – How to be human in the age of the machine’ by Hannah Fry This is a popular level, readable, up-to-date and well-informed introduction to algorithms and machine intelligence, published in 2018. The titleContinue Reading
by John Wyatt April 7, 2020 Number of comments0 Review: ‘Life 3.0 – Being human in the age of artificial intelligence’ by Max Tegmark Tegmark is a MIT physicist who was one of the founders of the Future of Life Institute, dedicated to theContinue Reading