Toby Walsh

Faking It offers a prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so... artificial. The brave new world of faking it... Artificial intelligence is, as the name suggests, artificial and fundamentally different to human intelligence. Yet often the goal of AI is to fake human intelligence. This deceit has been there from the very beginning. We've been trying to fake it...

Six ideas to understand artificial intelligence today Since Alan Turing first posed the question, 'Can machines think?', artificial intelligence has evolved from a speculative idea to a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this evolution, from Ada Lovelace's visionary work to IBM's groundbreaking defeat of the chess world champion and the revolutionary emergence of ChatGPT. It also explores...

Can we build moral machines? Toby Walsh, AI expert, examines the ethical issues we face in a future dominated by artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is an essential part of our lives - for better or worse. AI can be used to influence what we buy, who gets shortlisted for a job, and even how we vote. Without it, medical technology...

Is it game over for humanity? The essential guide to our most dangerous invention. Our fears about artificial general intelligence go deep. They touch on our very identity as thinking, feeling creatures, and on our place in the universe. Are we creating our own successor? And might this creation be a god? In this vital contribution, leading researcher and author...