Artificial Intelligence – should we be worried?

There’s a lot in the media at the moment concerning Artificial Intelligence, some hailing it as the next industrial revolution, others as Armageddon waiting to happen.  I know science fiction over the years has been […]

Science fiction and being human

In my last blog I discussed the science of science fiction and how as writers we deal with it or don’t deal with it.  Bottom line?  I know how to use my HD TV, my […]

Robots – will they make us lazy?

I suppose I could rephrase this with ‘robots (machines) are making us lazy.’  Machines have and are increasingly ensuring that, in the west at least, fewer and fewer of us have jobs/lives that entail hard, […]

Stephen Hawking and artificial intelligence

As I writer of science fiction Stephen Hawking’s pronouncment on this subject  was bound to grab my attention.  One of the most eminent scientists of our generation talking doom and gloom and the possible end of […]

Intelligent machines, what will they do with us?

I’ve written a number of blogs on robots, androids and intelligent computers and where it might be heading.  We seem to see creating artificial intelligence as an inevitable goal.  I just wonder what we will […]