The big problem with AI, and how to solve it

AI is a transformative technology with enormous economic, scientific and social benefit, one that is driving the fourth industrial revolution. Advanced machine learning algorithms are already dramatically changing how private and public institutions function, by automating numerous cognitive processes, generating new efficiencies, and enabling deeper, data-derived insights and predictions. Despite...

Reinventing liberal democracy in the age of intelligent machines: a talk

[slideshare id=239806582&doc=conwayhallslides-201206081152] Transcript of my talk at Conway Hall Ethical Society of London, and London Futurists. Let me start with the word “democracy”. If you think that you are citizens living in a democracy you are mistaken. You, I, are citizens in a constitutional republic – or monarchy, as is...

The Chinese edition of “In Our Own Image”

Today I received copies of the Chinese Edition of my book "In Our Own Image: the history and future of Artificial Intelligence" sent by my Chinese publisher China Citic Press. To celebrate the arrival of the books a good friend send me this, in Chinese: 正如中国有一句讲到:要想富先修路 - it means (I m...