There’s been a number of media stories in the last few days about the Google Engineer who claims Google’s Lambda AI is sentient, while Google claims it is not. These stories share a focus on sentience as we apply it to humans – self-aware, feel positive and negative emotions, capable of exercising judgement and making…
History has shown that over time it is inevitable that any human political system will be gamed by those who wish to gain from it. Some is done with the public good at heart, to fix system and policy flaws, some is done based on ideological belief and some is done out of pure selfish…
This is the second in a series of interviews I’m doing as part of Delib Australia’s media partnership with CeBIT in support of GovInnovate. I’ll also be livetweeting and blogging the conference on 25-27 November. View other posts in this series. If I had to pick someone to be in charge of developing an electronic…
Having centralised systems for voting is the standard approach for countries around the world. In most places it is simply accepted that the government funds the system for election and referendum voting – funding the polling places, ballot boxes, officials and vote counting systems, whether this be directly or at arms length via a body…
John Sheridan posted a link on Twitter to a very interesting analysis of the impact of social media on the revolutions across the Arab world over the last year. The paper provides strong evidence that social media was one of the key causes of these revolutions due to its ability to place a human face…
I’ve been reading up on the gaming of the Time.com 100 Poll in 2009, where vote rigging saw the founder of 4Chan elevated to the top position and the order of names in the poll manipulated to spell out ‘MARBLECAKE ALSO THE GAME’ (see the video below). While there are often legitimate reasons to create…
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