Alan Turing’s £50 banknote officially unveiled
If only he’d been treated like this in his lifetime: the computing pioneer who knew “this is only a foretaste”. Continue reading Alan Turing’s £50 banknote officially unveiled
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From Alan Turing to Future Artificial Intelligences – Reading Security Signals
The notion that the time we are living in now is “unprecedented” is a common one, but historians and philosophers alike will happily note that things are rarely so different that we can’t learn a lot from the past. Despite IT often being dominated by f… Continue reading From Alan Turing to Future Artificial Intelligences – Reading Security Signals
Containing a Superintelligent AI Is Theoretically Impossible
The halting problem strikes again. Continue reading Containing a Superintelligent AI Is Theoretically Impossible