Tautology, Barbers, Impredicativity and Self-Adjudication
Here’s a thought that is tautological:
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Laplace’s Gremlin and Irreducibility
Stephen Hawking’s book1, A Brief History of Time, is one of the most influential popular physics books to have been written. But it may also be the source of a confusion about the meaning of another great physicist’s idea, Laplace’s demon. Stephen Hawking, *A Brief History of Time: From Big Bang to Black
Perpetual Motion, Superintelligence and the Inaccessible Game
Imagine in 1925 a world where the automobile is already transforming society, but big promises are being made for things to come. The stock market is soaring, the 1918 pandemic is forgotten. And every major automobile manufacturer is investing heavily on the promise they will each be the first to produce a car that needs no fuel. A perpetual motion machine.
The Open Society and its AI
This is a summary of some of the ideas presented in a talk for The State of Open 2024 on 7th February 2024. The piece is also included in the “State of Open” report on AI and Open Innovation.
Boogeyman Diplomacy
When I’m sat at my computer, on the shelf behind me, sometimes visible on my Zoom calls is a 50-year-old stuffed toy panda. The toy was the first gift I received and it’s a legacy of Richard Nixon’s panda diplomacy with China. Détente with China was symbolised with a gift of two giant pandas, they arrived in Washington in the same month that I was born in New Jersey.
Storming the Castle: Data science for Covid-19 Policy
This piece was written for the Bennett Institute Blog, the original version is available here.
A Primer on Decision Making with Uncertainty
From 4th April 2020 I became involved in the Royal Society DELVE Initiative. The following piece was co-written with other DELVE members (but in personal capacities) as an aide to understanding the different nature of policy decision making that’s required when there is uncertainty about the science. It was originally written in April, but published on Peter Diggles web page at end of August.
The Ministry of Silly Models
This is an imagined future, one that I believe could place the UK at the forefront of AI today. It builds upon our traditional strengths, but is forward looking.
The 3Ds of Machine Learning Systems Design
There is a lot of talk about the fourth industrial revolution centered around AI. If we are at the start of the fourth industrial we also have the unusual honour of being the first to name our revolution before it’s occurred. The technology that has driven the revolution in AI is machine learning. And when it comes to capitalising on the new generation of deployed machine learning solutions there…
Natural and Artificial Intelligence
How are we making computers do the things we used to associated only with humans? Have we made a breakthrough in understanding human intelligence? While recent achievements might give the sense that the answer is yes, the short answer is that we are nowhere near. All we’ve achieved for the moment is a breakthrough in emulating intelligence . Science on Holborn Viaduct, cradling Watt's Governor…