Tom ChatfieldI asked GPT-3 for a philosophical response. It gave me utter rubbish.How amazing and interesting is GPT-3? Pretty amazing and pretty interesting. Is it intelligent and can it be said to understand us? No…Aug 1, 20202Aug 1, 20202
Tom ChatfieldDay by day through 2020Normality is something you know by its absence. As I watch things that used to be ordinary slip away, I’m trying to capture something like…Mar 25, 2020Mar 25, 2020
Tom ChatfieldinOneZeroThere’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’Technologists believe the ethical challenges of A.I. can be solved with code, but the challenges are far more complexJan 16, 202012Jan 16, 202012
Tom ChatfieldA book with shiny writing on the coverWhen I was seven or eight years old, I used to pick up paperback novels in bookshops and stare at them: thick squat books with huge shiny…Jul 23, 2019Jul 23, 2019
Tom ChatfieldSkinner boxes all the way to the SingularityIn her book Addiction by Design, the anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll explores the Las Vegas gambling industry as an epitome of…Jul 10, 2019Jul 10, 2019
Tom ChatfieldinOneZeroHow Video Games Help Us Navigate Real-World ProblemsThe sci-fi writers Tom Chatfield and Julian Gough discuss how games are becoming an important route to understanding a uniquely challenging…Jun 19, 2019Jun 19, 2019
Tom ChatfieldWhat Does It Mean to Think Well?Why we must stop obsessing about perfection and embrace being wrongMar 14, 20188Mar 14, 20188