The spacesuited figure on the cover makes it look like science fiction, the opening liability disclaimer would fit right into to an end-user licence agreement, the index is sandwiched between a ...

It has been, can you believe it, six years since Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee released Race Against the Machine. In this much discussed book, they predicted that we were arriving at the “back ...

Alex Knapp at Forbes talks about the example of the limits of airplane speed as an example of real world limits to exponential progress. The speed of rockets continue the speed curve slightly. What ...

A leading AI researcher has claimed that artificial intelligence is starting to develop beyond an exponential rate. Jack Clark, who co-founded AI research startup Anthropic after spending four years ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...