What happens when robots and machines are smarter than us?

I’ve written a number of blogs that look at the issues around our (that is human) relationship with ever smarter machine intelligences and it continues to be a subject that fascinates me.  I think it […]

What will we be doing in the future – (3)

So over the last few blogs I have agonised over the affect of increasing mechanisation, robots and computers taking over much of what we currently call ‘work’.  The bottom line as I see it is […]

What will we be doing in the future – part 2

In the last blog set out a case that with cleverer and cleverer machines there can only be increased mechanisation of ‘traditional’ jobs.  Also that these will not be restricted to basic manufacturing.  Now I […]

What will we humans be doing in the future? – part 1

In past blogs I’ve looked at the development of robots and machines, even speculating on what might constitute being human, if we keep replacing bits of ourselves with machines.  One thing is clear to me, […]

Men and machines – and what does it mean to be human?

A couple of months ago I produced two blogs discussing robots and androids; why would we want them to look like us and what would human like androids get out of life.  These seemed to generate quite […]