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These changes are already taking place in the world of mathematics, which is the first to be impacted by the new capabilities of powerful AI...

In this view, mathematicians will still prove theorems and come up with counterexamples, but they will do it because they enjoy it, not beca...

For the last few months, there has been much talk of AI agents going “rogue”. This is another of those unhelpful anthropomorphisms that are ...

 Herod the Great, mongrel, Idumae -an, Nabatean, (possibly half-jew -ish, half-arab), plucked out for power by Cae -sar, polygamous, hated b...

The world of generative AI is so complex, and moving so quickly, that it is no wonder that even the relatively recent EU AI Act , which ente...

In a post on his blog, the security guru Bruce Schneier points out that if the ruling stands and is adopted elsewhere, it could have importa...

“You fed me gobbets of data, titbits of del -icate information, laced with a gravy of lies, Rumours and nonsense.  This enticing fruit I did...

The proof uses “an infinite unramified tower Of real number fields with 3-power Galois groups of growing degree”, the ab -stract says of the...

With the latest incarnation of its search engine, Google is making the World Wide Web as we have known it for over 30 years invisible, and t...

Once upon a time, I sang – yet Again – of word processors, spreadsheets, data- bases, comms (though not the Internet, A concept that emerged...

Next week, a crucial vote will be held by the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament (JURI). It concerns the proposed copyrigh...

ELIZA was a very simple AI program written forty years ago that nonetheless convinced many people who interacted with it that it was indeed...

Today's Web user depends on search - well, I do, at least. But search/Google is really only doing words. And, as any fule kno , words ...