Tag Archives: Peter Bray

I read the news today oh boy!

As a young boy all our important news came over the wireless. Listening in during the war on one of those large, round, brown, bakelite radios to the steady, clear RP delivery from the BBC was de rige ...
Better cars; faster cars; same human brain

Better cars; faster cars; same human brain

Ever since Alan Turing provided a test definition for a machine to present artificial intelligence we have been wondering about and even fearing the possibility of a machine with a greater intelligenc ...
Are you content?

Are you content?

Not happy, just content. Of all the daft ideas to appear out of the blue is one called a happiness index. As if we can put a number on what our happiness might be. Even for the mathematically minded t ...
Hello, is that you? This is me

Hello, is that you? This is me

We humans could never manage without language. Those early homo sapiens could never manage with just grunts. They, or their forebears, started with grunts and gestures of a sort, but how many differen ...