Thought provoking articles on the Implications of AI as well as computing and other interesting subjects.
AI in Aviation 2025 - How AI can help aviation, and how it can do so safely. We assume our reader is familiar with commercial or general aviation, but not particularly familiar with writing software or how artificial intelligence actually works.
Mental Obesity 2026 - the next disaster to hit society, as people become mentally obese due to the bad diet of social media and lack of mental exercise and loss of critical thinking.
Mechanisms of AI Existential Threat 2018 / 2026 - This paper considers the mechanisms by which AI may become an existential threat to humanity. It concludes that the circumstances for that threat to develop already exist.
Why is AI hard to define? - British Computer Society, IT Now, November 2023
Computer chess: a Historical Perspective - IT Now, September 2024. The model O's and X's program, written in the style of a chess engine, that the article references. Also in text.
AI Overview - 2020
Deterministic Clustering - British Computer Society, Expert Update; Presented at the AI conference in Cambridge
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