Conscious Entity

My ORCID OrcIDs are used by arXiv to uniquely identify authors. I'm not particularly indistinguishable, as named entities go, but it st...

The Cambrian explosion of widely used programming languages, D, Python, Scala, Go, Swift, R, Lua, and so forth, is prima facie evidence that...

An article earlier in the year in Scientific American suggested that there may be inherent limits on human intelligence, far beyond those i...

Below is a letter I wrote in reply to a fundraising email from Jimmy Wales, for Wikipedia.  I heartily support the wonderful effect of Wikip...

Part of what we’ve been trying to do with the LarKC project is to scale up AI to tackle real problems. One part of that is supporting the st...

Image via Wikipedia Today I took part in a panel discussion with Munir Ismet , Andy Mulholland & Anthony Williams at the 5th M...

Image via Wikipedia In an important sense, AI is the reason we humans invented computers in the first place. At first the motivati...