My recent article – The Rise Of The Intelligent Authors – is published in the latest issue of Philosophy Now magazine. You can get the physical magazine at all the usual places or read a slightly extended version online here
[excerpt from London Literary Review] …It can be argued that the entirety of human civilization has developed purely because of our ability to create those fictions which allow us to co-operate. The idea of an all powerful god, the ideas of nationhood and culture, the concepts of money and capitalism. These fictions are powerful but ultimately …
(originally published on 33rd Square www.33rdsquare.com/2017/03/machine-learning-one-truly-serious.html) Machine learning is in the news again this week as it was announced that systems can now surpass humans at identifying those at risk of taking their own life. Following a seemingly endless series of breakthroughs in recent years the news may seem like just one more thing that …