Well, Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned!
As predicted some time ago, ‘celebrities’ (to use the term in its loosest sense) are now selling their images for sex robots! The newest addition may be particular familiar to certain US politicians …...
View ArticleNo More Privacy Any More? (Just putting this out there)
OK, some of this material isn’t new but I’ve been asked to edit a special (Information) journal edition on (something like) ‘Will AI, Big Data and the IoT Mean the End of Privacy?’ The plan is to...
View ArticleCall for Papers: ‘The End of Privacy?’
I’m editing a special edition of the journal, Information, with the title, ‘The End of Privacy?’ https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/End_of_Privacy Contributions welcome! Deadline...
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 ArticleTechnology Changing the World? It’s time for the regular reminder …
There’s a UK general election on Thursday 12th December. Perhaps a once-in-a-generation chance to steer the country away from fascism? The stakes are high and the issues numerous (yes, really, more...
View ArticleAnd so it continues …
Following on from the recent More Predictions Coming True? post, ‘more predictions coming truer!’...
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 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...
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