The quantum leap

UNDER A CRYSTAL CHANDELIER IN A HIGH-ceilinged anteroom in Paris, the moderator of Intelligence Rising is reprimanding his players. These 12 former government officials, academics, and artificial inte

STUART RUSSELL RECEIVES FOUR OR five emails a day from people who seem to be in the grips of psychosis, convinced their AI chatbot of choice is suddenly conscious. “It’s appointing them as its emissar

On 1 September 1939, Post Office engineer Tommy Flowers found himself in Berlin to take part in a European conference about telephone systems. Germany invaded Poland the same day. Flowers and a fellow

We saw the first sign of the UK government’s AI strategy with the recent unveiling of the world’s 11th most powerful supercomputer at the University of Bristol. Isambard-AI is formed of 12 cabinets, e

How can you get your people – employees, family, relatives – used to the idea that Google might not be available one day? Not just in a regional crash, but offline for days, weeks, months due to a del

FEW POLITICAL LEADERS REALIZE THE RATE AT which artificial intelligence is racing ahead. For decades, technological progress has been logged at a pace known as Moore’s Law, named after Gordon Moore, t