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Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations - The spirit of Star Trek It would be hard to have a series of articles about Science Fiction, and the portrayal of Artificial Intelligence within without talking about Star Trek. Earlier articles looked at Star Wars and how we accept a fictional society as just and good, despite the fact that it’s b...

High technology with little technology, the world of Dune Continuing this series looking at popular Sci-Fi media, I now want to explore the fabulous world of Frank Herbert’s Dune series. Earlier articles looked at Star Wars and how we accept a fictional society as just and good, despite the fact that it’s built on the abject slavery of artific...

Can we live with artificial sentient beings as equals? I once read a definition of Science Fiction as ‘making an argument for a world that has not yet come into existence,’ and it’s in the spirit of that, that I’m exploring works of Sci-Fi, in particular with regards to artificial intelligence, and exploring their arguments in favor of a partic...

I’m a huge fan of using synthetic means to create data to drive Machine Learning understanding forward. For computer vision, one often has spend a lot of money to create a dataset of images, by, for example, hiring photographers, models, equipment and the rest. But with Computer Generated Imagery (CGI), it’s becoming easier to create photoreali...

There is much discussion and speculation about the emergence of AI, the path to AGI, the singularity, and whether or not AI will be the end of humanity. I find it fascinating because it’s primarily speculation and mainly driven by fear of the unknown. That’s not a great way to get an accurate prediction. Let’s think about that for a second. Pe...

A few years back I was ecstatic to be given the opportunity to write the Stargate Universe comic books. As a test, the publisher asked me to pitch a one-shot storyline with the characters from Stargate Atlantis on vacation. So I had them in Ireland, caught up in a classic mystery with a small village of folks terrified by the legend of the Dear...

My book “AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development: A Programmer’s Guide” is finally available I’m delighted to announce that my latest book, “AI and Machine Learning for On-Device Development,” is now available. AI and Machine Learning have been a passion of mine for some time – and I believe there’s a strong future for software dev...

The song “The Greatest Love of all,” performed beautifully by Whitney Houston, begins with the lyrics: “I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way…” It’s a beautiful sentiment, made much more so because it can be true. So I wanted to share the stories of three children in Japan who epitomize these lyrics...