“San Francisco is first US city to ban facial recognition“
Well, this is interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-48276660 Something had to happen of course: we’ve been discussing this for years on this blog … Shazam for People? The ‘Prof on a Train’...
View ArticleCan AI Get Too Clever?
No, we’re not talking technological singularity; something a bit more down to earth: just good old fashioned fake news really but with a new twist. A fairly, short, simple, not terribly deep piece this...
View ArticleTuring Test for Dogs
A good, punchy, witty reminder from Existential Comics that most people who drone on about the ‘Turing Test’, particularly news reports that some new software has ‘passed the Turing Test’, have never...
View ArticleNew edition of ‘Conscious’
Yes, indeed, there’s a new edition of the novel! Updated slightly to reflect changing world events (although, sadly, all the initial predictions are pretty much coming true now). And with a swish new...
View ArticleAI/Machine Learning for Minefield Clearance
“Glyndwr University researcher seeks real world data to develop AI landmine clearance” A landmine research project which aims to develop an artificial intelligence approach to mine clearance is being...
View ArticleGoing up Exponentially …
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.” Albert Allen Bartlett These are depressing times so this month’s contribution (a bit short for...
View ArticleEffective Age-gating for Online Alcohol Sales (Final Report)
‘Surprised? No, not really!’ The ‘Effective Age-gating for Online Alcohol Sales’ report, funded by Alcohol Change UK, is published today. Written by Jess Muirhead and Vic Grout, it considers the...
View ArticleAdvanced Machine Learning and Data Mining: A New Frontier in Artificial...
Special Issue Information: Advanced Machine Learning and Data Mining: A New Frontier in Artificial Intelligence Research (Big Data and Cognitive Computing Journal) Call for Papers Without data, there...
View ArticleFully Automated Luxury … Dancing? (A futuristic conspiracy theory)
Fully Automated Luxury … Dancing? (A futuristic conspiracy theory in the making) Vic Grout, Professor of Computing Futures, Wrexham Glyndŵr University Download the PDF version: Fully Automated Luxury...
View ArticleBrexit and Conway’s Life!
Not entirely sure if this is numerology or gematria or what! But those of you into finding meaning in this sort of thing, try putting the following pattern … Into a Conway’s Life simulator such as...
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