TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE says the authorities are in a difficult battle with big tech over regulating the cyber world Big Tech rebuffing Interpol over how best to police the new virtual world of the metaverse doesn’t augur well. Europe’s law enforcement agency met with the likes of Meta and Microsoft with one pressing topic […]
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Beware the gadgets taking over our lives
TECH TALK: New apps are increasingly penetrating aspects of our every day life, says BILL MAGEE “Man is Never Ready for the Things He Invents” – Sci-Fi author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury “The Veldt” Soon the trusty smartphone will be equipped with an artificial intelligent-powered app dedicated to analysing our everyday anxieties. Let’s hope that […]
AI preparing us for a meeting of minds
TECH TALK: Bill Magee assesses the latest moves for a ‘merger’ of the human brain with machines “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole” – Nikola Tesla, 1926 (quote courtesy of Prof. Bill Buchanan OBE) “It’s science […]
Robots are here, just don’t expect them to be your friends
TECH TALK: BILL MAGEE says the new world of AI poses big challenges over trust and security “Can Machines Think?” Computing Machinery and Intelligence/The Turing Test – Alan Turing“You just can’t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans” I, Robot – Isaac Asimov An imminent report on artificial intelligence should get the […]