Artificial intelligence
Why AI will never write a great song
Two years ago, the songwriter Nick Cave told his fans that he’d speak to them directly — not through an…
A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize
Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize, the beauty of physics – and why AI is nothing to fear
Ignore the science fiction: AI isn’t out to get us
Every ten to 15 years there is a technology breakthrough that really changes what it means to be human. The…
I have seen the future, and it’s a racist, filthy-mouthed teenage robot
‘I’m a nice person,’ said the robot. ‘I just hate everybody.’ Maybe you know the feeling. The robot in question…
Why could a robot replace a police chief – but not me?
It’s hard to turn on the television nowadays without being shown a robot. It might be looking like a grasshopper…
The real reason GPs are grumpy: the robots are coming for them
There’s something wrong with the relationship between patients and their GPs. I’ve spent much of this winter in my local…
The surer we are that machines can think, the less sure we'll be about people
Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…
The sheer stupidity of artificial intelligence
Believers in omnipotent machine intelligence are reshaping the world to fit their fantasies
How to beat a robot bookie
What does it mean these days to beat the bookie? Many of us like to imagine that winning a bet…
The plan with three brains
A good human chess player with a good computer trounces the best human or computer playing alone
