Author: Brendan Dixon
“Bot Dylan” Is a Mechanical Mockingbird
Creativity has eluded encoding. Programmers have failed to make machines that create as humans create.
Siddhartha Mukherjee’s History of Genomics Is a Story with a Lesson
Writing history is hard. The details and dates, people and places can tumble over one another.
Machine Intimacy Would Take the Evolutionary Mindset to Its Logical Outcome
There are some inflection points, cultural and life bends, that, when you encounter them, should make you pause and reassess the landscape.
Turn Over Child-Raising to a Computer?
Mattel’s new “smart baby monitor,” their digital nanny dubbed Aristotle, leaves me flummoxed.
Robert Marks: What Computers Will Never Do
Many Artificial Intelligence researchers wrongly believe that intelligence arises from the application of algorithms.