@MarkyBee

Director TCIDA (The Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics) & Professor of Cognitive Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London

 Goldsmiths, London
gold.ac.uk/computing/research/tcida/
Joined February 2009
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God and robots: Will AI transform religion? There are so many interesting questions that could be raised wrt religion and AI and this short program skillfully manages to avoid raising one; drivel :-/ bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58…

God and robots: Will AI transform religion?

Robot "priests" can recite prayers, perform funerals, and even comfort those experiencing a spiritual crisis.

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Half Man Half Biscuit - The Trumpton Riots [Official Audio]

'The Trumpton Riots' taken from the 2003 reissue of Back in the D.H...

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Today was the day that “#Brexit means #Brexit”; May’s presciently strange RECURSIVE definition of a term THAT NEVER BOTTOMS OUT :)
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Knowing how these events are choreographed, just sussed that the Queen very effectively trolled Donald the Duck by deliberately turning up 15mins **early** in a winter coat on a scorching day, and pointedly looking at her watch every few mins #QueenVsTrump
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London Funzing gig coming up <facebook.com/events/22879189…>

Killer Robots and Weaponised A.I

Event in London, United Kingdom by Funzing Talks and 2 others on Tuesday, June 12 2018 with 270 people interested.

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C.P. Cavafy@CCavafy30 May 2018
“Cavafy is for me not only the great poet of the Levant, but of all culture in decline – which makes him universal in this century.” – John Fowles, writer, on C.P. Cavafy.
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Fantastic evening last night with Prof. J Mark Bishop (@MarkyBee) on #AI and b2b. Some great insights into the changes AI will make for the business sector. #AIb2b #MeritAI
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The 'hole world is a blacker place without this man's singularity minded genius #stephenhawking bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43396008
It is not often that you are obliged to proclaim a much-loved genius wrong, but in his alarming prediction on artificial intelligence I believe #StephenHawking erred. To be precise –in an echo of Schrödinger’s cat– he was simultaneously wrong and right. <tinyurl.com/jhm2s5m>

Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence | New Scientist

Stephen Hawking thinks computers may surpass human intelligence and take over the world. We won't ever be silicon slaves, insists an AI expert

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C.P. Cavafy@CCavafy1 Mar 2018
“Like one who’s long prepared, like someone brave, bid farewell to her, to Alexandria, who is leaving.” – C.P. Cavafy, ‘The God Abandons Antony’ (‘Apoleipein o Theos Antonion’), from the first edition of Cavafy’s Poems, publ. 1935. #WorldBookDay #poetry
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Roger K Moore@rogerkmoore26 Feb 2018
No, this is not a “conversation” based on “machine learning” - it is a sequence of human-written questions and answers being triggered by set phrases #aiethics xitter.cf/ErinJHolmes/status/966…
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In my never ending search to find #vegan ‘#cheese’ that’s (a) actually edible without inducing vomit & (b) tastes of cheese, delighted this passed one test; more astonished to learn it’s made in #GREECE - IME a country not always at the forefront of manufactured vegan delights :)
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#Embodied #Cognition #Acting Our new [co-edited] volume, "Embodied Cognition, Acting and Performance", has just been published by Routledge & what a 'right rollicking bed-time read' it is to; a rather excellent selection of new material, should the subject matter switch you on ..
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21 March: Brain rhythms as a predictor of mental illness #WhiteheadLecture @GoldsmithsUoL gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=1140…
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C.P. Cavafy@CCavafy29 Jan 2018
“I do not fear slanting currents of air. I laugh at tempests and shipwrecks. Alexandria of the wide streets will receive me safely.” – C.P. Cavafy, “Alexandrian Merchant”.
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And towards evening when the inkwells overturn And at last the figure which has sat Motionless for hours, pours himself out One glass of moonlight, drinks it, and retires. — Lawrence Durrell, "Elegy on the Closing of the French Brothels" (1948/1947) xitter.cf/xhaworthx/status/95745…
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A Melville@alphamelville28 Jan 2018
Gold-glass miniature portrait of a woman, 3rd century AD, one of a small group of such portraits, probably made in Alexandria, (Turin, Museo Civico).
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