One of the world’s two top conferences in AI and machine learning (ML) took place recently in Stockholm: ICML 2018. By some estimates, approximately 6000 people from all over the world descended on Stockholm for the event and there were a total of about 4500 papers submitted! It was a stimulating (and at times overwhelming!) event… Read More Superintelligence … Why AI Researchers Don’t Buy it!

“AlphaZero crushes chess!”  scream the headlines[1] as the AlphaZero algorithm developed by Google and DeepMind took just four hours of playing against itself (with no human help) to defeat the reigning World Computer Champion Stockfish by 28 wins to 0 in a 100-game match.  Only 4 hours to synthesise the chess knowledge of one and… Read More AI: A Tale of Two Futures.