The wisdom of the crowd The MCG runs a guessing game during AFL matches for visitors to estimate the MCG crowd size before the official number is published. Visitors tweet their estimates to #MCGCrowd, and the winner gets a prize (tweeting multiple guesse... (more…)

Researchers' views depend in part on what technology is (or will be) capable of – and in part on what consciousness actually is. (more…)

In a previous post, I described teaching a humanoid to walk by imitating a fellow humanoid. Here I give my humanoid the capability to learn on its own. The humanoid’s only resources are the Proximal Policy Optimization algorithm, two randomly initialized ... (more…)

One day AI might organise our meetings, respond to our messages and even buy things on our behalf...

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, art, and higher education... (more…)