Computing Machinery and Intelligence
Can a machine be made to be super-critical?
The AI That Has Nothing to Learn From Humans
AlphaGo Zero - When machines appear to be able to "think for themselves"
The Scale of Nature: Modeling the Mississippi River
Places Journal
The ruins of an abandoned 200-acre hydraulic model of the Mississippi River Basin testify to the decades-long battle to control the great river.
Mapping’s Intelligent Agents
Places Journal
How do machine intelligences read and write the world? And what Other intelligences deserve our attention?
Indexing the World of Tomorrow
Places Journal
How the 1939 World’s Fair anticipated our current obsession with urban data science and “smart” cities.
Instrumental City: The View from Hudson Yards
Places Journal
The world’s most ambitious “smart city” project is here. Should we worry that New York City is becoming an experimental lab?