AI – the Real World
What is your problem, exactly? Mind games provide a rich seam for AI. Every year, AI gains more scalps – recently including Go and Poker. These games share a common feature: they are well defined –…
Read MoreAI – perspiration or inspiration?
Does intelligence suddenly pop into existence, like switching on a light bulb? Or is it an emergent property dependent on sheer volume of calculations? Can perspiration result in inspiration? As it happens, we have a good…
Read MoreAI – finding the Truth
Introduction It would be good if future AIs, with their vast wisdom, could be better at finding and recognising the truth than people have been. Why the Truth? Most people do not need to know the…
Read MoreAI – God or Devil?
What is it like to make something more intelligent than yourself? My early experiments showed how AI could work – and answered: Who would play better – God or the Devil? The God strategy In 1979,…
Read MoreAI – from Zero to hero
Introduction Maybe the fear that AI was set to take over the world started with Mary Shelley’s monster – an intelligent human creation which got out of control. Nearly 200 years after this story was published,…
Read MoreFaster than Live
“Quality, Speed and Price – you can have any two.” The internet is the ultimate free market – a hotbed of innovation, where new paradigms trigger ripples – or tsunamis – of global disruption, and anti-competitive…
Read MoreThe Power of the Browser
In medieval times, educated Europeans conversed in Latin. But this simple summary disguises the constant innovations in natural language. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, written classical Latin stayed stable – but spoken Latin developed…
Read MorePop-up cloud infrastructure
As a lover of fine chocolate, and a member of the Chocolate Tasting Club, I notice chocolate shops. They are liberally scattered throughout London. The run up to Easter is a good time for chocolate, and…
Read MoreBolt-on proxy workflow to the existing media infrastructure
Media organizations are entertaining new combinations of software and hardware offerings promising quicker, better and more cost effective tools that fit into production workflows and on a larger scale, vast and complex digital media supply chains….
Read MoreSo psyched to part of the A+E Networks deployment of Blackbird.
Kevin Tobin - Senior Director of Production, A+E Networks