In the late seventeenth century, England’s King William III tried to fix his budget by taxing windows. It wasn’t completely illogical, wealthier citizens had bigger…
I have the privilege of working across Asia Pacific, which I would argue is the most exciting, dynamic and diverse set of economies in the…
Ask ChatGPT how to boil an egg or write a limerick, and it will usually do a fine job. Ask any large language model to…
Voyager 1 has ventured farther than any human-made machine, now over 25 billion kilometres from Earth, drifting through the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Since…
We are not just fascinated by artificial intelligence itself, but by the idea of AI that can adapt and evolve on its own. This self-driven…
I’ve been writing this blog since 2010. In that very first post, I quoted figures estimating the content of the Internet had reached 487 billion…
It’s time to reduce our working week, and we can achieve it by better directing our technology to benefit society. Pioneering economist, John Maynard Keynes,…
George Orwell wrote about the “proles” in 1984 being kept placated and distracted by automated writing machines which churned out mediocre novels. It’s possible that…
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)…
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,…