Peter McAllister
Sci-Fi right again - Experts now say AI likely to cause "existential catastrophe"
Researchers from the University of Oxford and affiliated with Google DeepMind have now concluded that it’s “likely” in new research - it...
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Peter McAllister
- Aug 11
- 1 min
Science Fiction - the start of reality (again)?
So if you hate Star Trek (notably the original and the movies with the original crew) leave now to save yourself. The death of the actor...
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Peter McAllister
- Jun 15
- 1 min
Was the Google Chatbot sentient or at least as sentient as a human?
A Google engineer was sent on leave for 'breaching confidentially' when he published an article saying his LaMDA chatbot was sentient. ...
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Peter McAllister
- Apr 14
- 1 min
Fact or fiction - it's still called a "story"
(Source - Motley Fool) Just read an interesting article from The Motley Fool and investment advisory service that provided information...
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Peter McAllister
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Now it is just getting weird!
MIT's Cheetah learns to run by itself. Nobody programes it with how to deal with difficult terrain, nobody has to pick it up when it...
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Peter McAllister
- Feb 26
- 1 min
Why fear robots, well they are just like us...!
The latest Sci-Fi comedy offering from Netflix is a bit different. Yes, there are robots, and humans and all is well until the robots...
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Peter McAllister
- Feb 2
- 2 min
What’s in a name?
When you read a story, how does the name of the character influence the picture you build of them in your mind? I have been thinking a...
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Peter McAllister
- Jan 15
- 1 min
Dystopian AI - your kind of thing?
Here are three recent novels where AI have been central characters in the story - in all cases where we expect "it" to behave as our...
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Peter McAllister
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
AI argues both sides of a debate!
While the author of an artice reporting an instance where an AI developed a sound argument as to why AI is potentially dangerous means...
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Peter McAllister
- Dec 3, 2021
- 1 min
Self replicating robots are here – time to panic?
Image Doug Blackiston and Sam Kriegman, UVM I used the idea of self-replicating nanobots in my novel “The Code. If you AI loses its mind...
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Peter McAllister
- Nov 20, 2021
- 2 min
With AI inevitably rule?
One of the scary things about AI is we don’t know what we don’t know. Some people talk about it as the panacea for human ills –...
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Peter McAllister
- Nov 9, 2021
- 1 min
Stop Press: Sci -fi movie comes true again (sort of)?
Image from Physics.org Remember the movie "Aramdgeddon"? Ben Affleck, Steve Buscemi and Bruce Willis (amongst others) fly out to an...
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Peter McAllister
- Oct 22, 2021
- 1 min
Is there really a Squirrel AI Award?
Sure is! It's really got nothing to do with small furry mammals, but this years AAAI Squirrel AI Award was for writing AI and ML that...
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Peter McAllister
- Oct 8, 2021
- 2 min
Sci-fi movies from books - "That's not the way I imagined it!"
The Battle room - Enders Game (NYTimes) With the recent release on Foundation on Apple has reminded me of my routine diappointent at...
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Peter McAllister
- Sep 27, 2021
- 2 min
“Free range” Tesla’s – when your robot gets a side hustle.
Tesla in flight
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Peter McAllister
- Sep 15, 2021
- 1 min
Swarms of robots mining on the moon - really? YES!!!
(A starling murmation - thanks Google -but they might be robots in the future) "A team of researchers at the University of Arizona’s...
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Peter McAllister
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
Could a South African Food container patent change the world?
South Africa has recently granted a patent to an AI for its invention of a better food container. The country doesn’t have a good history...
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Peter McAllister
- Jul 30, 2021
- 1 min
So what is the connection?
Arthur C Clarke Sir Tim Berners-Lee the Playboy Bunny (images from...
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Peter McAllister
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
Were Sci Fi films set in 2019 - 2021 "right"?
Source Rotten Tomatos There are a few famous films in the past that are set or spend time, in the period between 2019 and 2021 - movies...
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Peter McAllister
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
Will the Writer survive the AI revolution?
(Image Wordpress) I meant the profession, not me as an individual! “This is not a race against the machines. “If we race against them, we...
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