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Posted onMarch 23, 2024March 24, 2024AI

Gen AI is rocket fuel for Earth’s digital twin

by Robert HillardLeave a comment on Gen AI is rocket fuel for Earth’s digital twin

This month I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech to open the Earth Digital Twin Workshop organised by JAXA (Japan’s national space agency)…

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Posted onDecember 16, 2023December 16, 2023AI

We are no closer to the singularity

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There is no doubt that 2023 has been the year that AI, through Generative AI, has truly captured public imagination.  As we wrap-up the year,…

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Posted onOctober 28, 2023October 28, 2023AI

Who is copyright protecting?

by Robert HillardLeave a comment on Who is copyright protecting?

Readers of this blog who are under 30 may not even know what a cassette tape is!  But when they appeared in the 1970s, they…

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Posted onAugust 26, 2023AI

AI’s information limits

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Last month I talked about what artificial intelligence needed to be useful.  I also talked about AI being smart, but I should also have qualified…

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Posted onJuly 27, 2023July 27, 2023AI

AI’s opposable thumbs

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Dolphins and whales are smart, maybe even smarter than us.  But without opposable thumbs, they can’t express their intelligence in technology or in ways that…

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Posted onJune 25, 2023March 23, 2024AI

Exponential priorities

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The great attraction of fossil fuels is their huge energy density.  Burning a kilogram of oil can produce 40 to 50 megajoules of energy to propel…

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Posted onApril 28, 2022August 19, 2023AI

Smart pigs might challenge what it means to be human

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We love to hear from smart pigs!  We empathise with Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web as he risks being turned into bacon and we understand the worst…

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Posted onMarch 30, 2018August 19, 2023AI

Information-driven work

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I’ve recently spoken to several executives who have more than two thousand unread emails. They all said roughly the same thing: “If someone really wants…

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Posted onJune 24, 2017August 19, 2023AI

More but not better jobs

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The future of work is the topic on everyone’s lips. We’ve gone from worrying about whether our children will have jobs to worrying about our…

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Posted onApril 23, 2017August 19, 2023AI

Machine rights

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When an employee leaves one organisation and moves to another, they are not allowed to take the property of their first employer with them. That…

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