@Leon banging on about AI and the like nails this. The universe - WTF is going on? I guess we've become the Greeks mark 2. (View Post)

The robot likes you @Malmesbury ! (View Post)

My hunch is that this is just a temporary spurt in terms of the long term route to real AI (rather less impressively it happened before in the 50s-70s). It appears to me that AI will become much much… (View Post)

I'm talking my book here, but if Burnham is front and centre to be re-elected as Manchester Mayor, how is he going to get himself chosen as the next Labour leader? Will he run again? (My guess almost… (View Post)

I think my family left Scotland (and it was Aberdeenshire coincidently) in about 1885 (Scots Guards), so this must have been their day-to-day. I find these transitions enormously fascinating. (View Post)