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Vic Grout is Professor of Computing Futures at Wrexham Glyndŵr University; previously Professor of Network Algorithms, Head of Computing, Associate Dean & Director of the Centre for Applied Internet Research. He serves on the National Committee of the Council of Professors & Heads of Computing, as Chair of CPHC Wales, & the British Computer Society Information Privacy Expert Panel & Information Security Specialist Group Committee. He is a European Commission Horizon 2020 Expert & Ethics consultant.

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Vic Grout In the short term, I usually go for a walk. I think that’s good practice anyway: writing too much, too quickly generally doesn’t produce good results …moreIn the short term, I usually go for a walk. I think that’s good practice anyway: writing too much, too quickly generally doesn’t produce good results for me. In the longer term, I don’t. I’ve plenty of other things to be doing so I come back to the writing when I’m ready. ‘Conscious’ took ten years, on and off!(less)
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Vic Grout The freedom. I write what I want to. If people like it, that’s a (huge) bonus. But it doesn’t drive me.
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The ‘ERIC’ Test for Strong AI

Disclaimer: This is not a universal test for strong AI! Background Three and a half years ago, just as new AI techniques were clearly about to propel generative AI into the public domain, a post ‘“ERIC”: How a Bad Think-Thing Destroyed the World’ was published on this blog. There was a threefold purpose: The ERIC ‘Story’ […]
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Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village
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“Capitalism’s final victory will be that, as it destroys us, it has us all blaming each other.”
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