It is now time to look ahead into the future relations between Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. One thing is certain, now...

From the beginning some people have predicted that machine intelligence will one day outstrip that of humans. The response of the...

In 1955 John McCarthy, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, organised a group “To clarify and develop ideas...

The idea of superhuman intelligence residing in mechanical devices is, as we have seen, a very old one. It is a very common trope in...

We now move on to one of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century, namely Alan Turing. Turing was a genuine polymath, solving problems...

In this section we will briefly discuss how the concept of a thinking machine first arose in human consciousness. Before the Nineteenth...

In the first Part we looked at the prescient writing of the Victorian novelist, Samuel Butler. Butler was way ahead of his age insofar as...

All of a sudden, everyone is worried about Artificial Intelligence. Suddenly, the old fears about the replacement of humans by machines...

H G WELLS I (1866-1946) Returning to our review of the founders of science fiction, we at last come to the man referred to by Brian W...

QUANTUM RUSSIAN ROULETTE AND "MANY WORLDS" We have now discussed the concept of the multiverse and how it solves the problem of quantum...

QUANTUM RUSSIAN ROULETTE The "Many Worlds" Interpretation of Quantum Theory attempts to remove randomness from the theory. In standard...

After being removed from his research post due to the death of Einar Olsen, Marius Larsen wandered the world, desperately trying to...

The short story "The Valley Of The Shadow" may be found in my first collection "Domains of Darkness." In it we are introduced to the...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0eH0oLDYzvoDX5X1uViXZqGJ9UUbqmR/view?usp=share_link This grim story is inspired by recent events in...

The writer known by the pseudonym John Lymington (1911-83) was a prolific writer in many genres. In SF he is notorious for his grim...

Now that the Magellan has been safely launched on her two-century journey to Alpha Centauri we can resume our examination of themes in...

Science Fiction as a separate type of fiction only dates from the Nineteenth Century when literate people realised that the development...

In "Doom of Stars" we learned how the greed for wealth and power by one supremely able scientist brought the Destroyer into the inner...

“Swift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking.” These are the chilling opening words of Eric Frank Russell’s...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-c.1914) was an American journalist and war hero. At the outbreak of the war Between The States he...