Martyn Rhys Vaughan
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART EIGHT: It's Checkmate For H. Sap
It is now time to look ahead into the future relations between Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. One thing is certain, now...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 4 min
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART SEVEN: Human Programming No Longer Required
From the beginning some people have predicted that machine intelligence will one day outstrip that of humans. The response of the...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 3 min
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART SIX: The Humans Lose Supremacy
In 1955 John McCarthy, an assistant professor at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, organised a group “To clarify and develop ideas...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 3 min
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART FIVE: Clarke's Vision
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...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 4 min
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART FOUR: The Great Polymath
We now move on to one of the greatest minds of the Twentieth Century, namely Alan Turing. Turing was a genuine polymath, solving problems...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 3 min
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART THREE: The First Programmer
In this section we will briefly discuss how the concept of a thinking machine first arose in human consciousness. Before the Nineteenth...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 2 min
AI AND THE FUTURE- PART TWO: An Early Pioneer
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...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Dec 4, 2023
- 4 min
AI AND THE FUTURE - PART ONE: The Beginnings of Doubt
All of a sudden, everyone is worried about Artificial Intelligence. Suddenly, the old fears about the replacement of humans by machines...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 14, 2023
- 3 min
HISTORY OF SF - H G WELLS
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...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 13, 2023
- 2 min
QUANTUM RUSSIAN ROULETTE II
QUANTUM RUSSIAN ROULETTE AND "MANY WORLDS" We have now discussed the concept of the multiverse and how it solves the problem of quantum...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 12, 2023
- 1 min
QUANTUM RUSSIAN ROULETTE
QUANTUM RUSSIAN ROULETTE The "Many Worlds" Interpretation of Quantum Theory attempts to remove randomness from the theory. In standard...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
INVISIBLE ENEMIES VI: The hran Part Two: Hideous Night
After being removed from his research post due to the death of Einar Olsen, Marius Larsen wandered the world, desperately trying to...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
INVISIBLE ENEMIES VI: THE hran Part One: The Valley Of The Shadow
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...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Oct 29, 2022
- 1 min
A FREE STORY - A ROOM WITH NO VIEW
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0eH0oLDYzvoDX5X1uViXZqGJ9UUbqmR/view?usp=share_link This grim story is inspired by recent events in...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
INVISIBLE ENEMIES V: THE STRANGERS
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...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Sep 4, 2022
- 2 min
INVISIBLE ENEMIES IV
Now that the Magellan has been safely launched on her two-century journey to Alpha Centauri we can resume our examination of themes in...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
IS SF JUST A TYPE OF FANTASY?
Science Fiction as a separate type of fiction only dates from the Nineteenth Century when literate people realised that the development...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
CLIMAX OF THE "STARS TRILOGY"
In "Doom of Stars" we learned how the greed for wealth and power by one supremely able scientist brought the Destroyer into the inner...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
INVISIBLE ENEMIES III - THE VITONS
“Swift death awaits the first cow that leads a revolt against milking.” These are the chilling opening words of Eric Frank Russell’s...
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Martyn Rhys Vaughan
- Jun 29, 2022
- 3 min
INVISIBLE ENEMIES II - THE DAMNED THING
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-c.1914) was an American journalist and war hero. At the outbreak of the war Between The States he...
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