Yesterday the House Of Lords – one of the two houses in the British parliament – gathered a Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence to meet with a number of academics and journalists and ask them…
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Good Game, Go Next
Last week was The International 2017, the biggest date in the DOTA 2 calendar where the world’s top teams compete in the complex and challenging MOBA for a prize pool totalling over $24m. In between…
Prayer for the Solstice
In the summer of 2005 a herd of twenty-three driverless cars barrelled across the Nevada desert, watched by scientists, engineers and nervous representatives of military funding agencies. Several hours later the first car crossed the…
More Unpredictable Stuff
At the time of writing this article I am on hole two thousand, eight hundred and forty two of Desert Golfing.Â
The Saturday Papers
This evening I found a few tweets from Jonathan Blow that disappointed me a bit. Here they are: I wrote code to do A* today, for the first time since I was in college. Long…
OTON, Procedural Generation, and Numbers
Late last year I was linked to OTON, a website about a proposed games console that “will be able to self-create games instantly within minutes without human input”. I didn’t comment on it because it…