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Shepherd.com book recommendations
I was asked by Ben Fox of shepherd.com to add to their book lists, which helps authors promote books to readers while also sharing their own favourite books. I chose to do a list on AI books, plus a couple of wild card science fiction books. I read quite a…
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Podcast with Rheza Budiono and Chris Tan
I was interviewed and talked (rambled) at some length about my views on AI in a podcast. I guess with more thought I'm probably also impressed by some of the pretrained transformers such as GPT-3... but somehow a lot of the output still feels like recycling our own junk back…
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My childhood and robots
From the age of about 12 I was building robots and programming computers. There are very few photos of my various creations (not least because each later robot tended to be made from pieces of earlier ones) but recently I found a few pictures, which I've assembled to show the…
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New book out soon!
I'm pleased to announce that my new book will be published next month. Entitled: "10 Short Lessons in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics", it is one of the launch titles of the Michael O’Mara Books new Pocket Einstein series. We've finalised the cover, complete with a very nice quote from Steve Pinker. The…
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TiE International Startup Competition judging
On 21 February I was honored to be invited as a guest judge for TiE London's International Startup Competition.
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SEEDAWARD judging
I was privileged to be invited to judge the European Semifinal of the SeedAward European Semi Final, RSA House, London in September, giving a keynote speech at the event. Later in November I was invited to be a judge at the SeedAward Final, in Shenzhen, China.
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Asian Leadership Conference
I was an invited speaker at the Asian Leadership Conference 2019 in Seoul, participating in a panel debate with Prof Denis Noble, Prof Terry Gaasterland, Prof Ho Sung Kim and chaired by Prof Doheon Lee.
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