Tesla board meeting August 2021 Present: Our Glorious and Most Brilliant Divine Master, Elon Musk (EM), Tom Tinker, Engineering (TT), Seamus O’Blather, Advertising (SOB) SOB: People are starting to notice the top speed in the hype-o-loop is under 30 mph EM: What can you do about that Tom? TT: We can make the lights flash […]
Category Archives: AI
Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Advanced computing
BBC Article 16 Aug 2021: Would you let a robot lawyer defend you? In my short story “Apeman” (from the Arkships series), I introduced the idea of robot lawyers: “Two identical GV34 AI units had been uploaded with Lawyer programming, each with full access to the central database of Case Law. One was designated Prosecution […]
I always cringe the way fictional AIs talk about their “subroutines” or even when people who should know better talk about “The Algorithm”. Such chatter demonstrates that the speaker knows little about what is required for true AI, a difference raised by Alan Turing himself. He asked: “Instead of trying to produce a programme to […]