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Google’s latest Go victory shows machines are no longer just learning, they’re teaching
Mark Robert Anderson, Edge Hill University Just over 20 years ago was the first time a computer beat a human world champion in a chess match, when IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat Gary Kasparov in a narrow victory of 3½ games to 2½. Just under a decade later, machines were deemed to have conquered the…
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After 75 years, Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics need updating
Mark Robert Anderson, Edge Hill University When science fiction author Isaac Asimov devised his Three Laws of Robotics he was thinking about androids. He envisioned a world where these human-like robots would act like servants and would need a set of programming rules to prevent them from causing harm. But in the 75 years since…
