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AI advances fastest when we find unnatural ways of doing things. Magnus Carlsen is widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time. An obvious prodigy (his Wikipedia page mentions solving 50-piece jigsaw puzzles when he was 2 years old), he earned the rank of grandmaster at age 13,...
If increasingly panic-stricken headlines are to be believed, Artificial Intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. The Prime Minister’s advisor on AI has warned that...
The recent news that BT would reduce its workforce by as many as 55,000 by 2030, including about 10,000 jobs replaced by artificial intelligence (AI), is part of a growing...
There’s a fun game to be played with The New York Times’ coverage of British crime. It’s very simple and you can play along at home: how many paragraphs will it take...
Not if it can generate income… Originally published July 2022. Mostly confined to cyberpunk and tech circles prior to 2021, the metaverse has since experienced breakout attention...
How algorithm managers are taking over the office. The 1999 cult classic film Office Space depicts Peter’s dreary life as a cubicle-dwelling software engineer. Every Friday,...
The social separation imposed by the pandemic led us to rely on technology to an extent we might never have imagined – from Teams and Zoom to online banking and vaccine status...
Climate change policy has entered a new era. The growing row between the United States and the European Union over the impacts of the new American green subsidy regime makes that...
Ever since Elon Musk took Twitter private for US$44bn (£36bn), the debate around the social media platform has been vitriolic. There has been considerable angst about the...
Facebook may not be the original social media platform, but it has stood the test of time – until recently. Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, saw its...