Data and the secret scramble for AI’s soul

The key resource of the AI era is labeled training data; a quiet rivalry is on to get it

Why AI means different, not better

When bloodletting becomes antibiotics, not more blood

Banking’s secret AI middleware: a fall guy

Between strategy and trading algos is a man-in-the-middle — to fire

AH, THE BANTER of weekend brunch in West London. Coffee. Eggs. Gourmet smashed avocado on sourdough. And office…

Big data, AI and Charlottesville 2017

In two decades, tech will make confrontation harder to happen

On building AI fit for purpose

not a replica of human inefficiencies

“I wouldn’t do it like that”

ONE OF THE MOST interesting aspect of artificial intelligence and robotics is that we will develop solutions that perfectly fit the…

freeing the fetters of the imagination

The difficulty in conceiving what AI means for human endeavour

AI as “intermediate good”— with a twist

Artificial intelligence isn’t the end-product but a vital ingredient, even if we don’t yet know what those goods and services will be

IN THE late 1990s when cryptography was liberalized, I reckoned it would unleash a wave of crypto…