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...EB: Yes, the Turing Test is the iconic idea that Alan Turing came up with in 1950, that we could make a machine that was so powerful that it could not be distinguished from a human....
...Last year’s winner was Sebastian Mallaby for his biography of Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew. Books on finance and economics occupy a large section of this year’s prize bookshelf....
...Bryce Hoffman saw plenty of both as he researched American Icon, his 2012 book about Alan Mulally’s fight to save Ford....
...The Sparsholt Affair, by Alan Hollinghurst, Picador A new novel from the author of the Man Booker-winning The Line of Beauty....
...Alan Blinder coined Murphy’s Law of Economic Policy in 1987, and it remains unfortunately resonant today: “Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they...
...… The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies , by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, WW Norton, RRP£17.99/$26.95 Brynjolfsson and McAfee started to lay...
...The internet boom pushed the rate up to 2.6 per cent – it was this period that led Alan Greenspan, former Fed chairman, to talk about a “productivity feast” – but by 2004, well before the financial crisis...
...Alan Johnson MP and author of ‘Please, Mister Postman’ (Bantam Press) Alison Light’s Common People: The History of an English Family (Fig Tree) was a revelation....
...Business The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, by Martin Ford, Basic Books, RRP$28.99 If The Second Machine Age (by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee) was last year’s...
...… The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, WW Norton, RRP£17.99/$26.95 Brynjolfsson and McAfee started to lay...
...A growing number of economists – including Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a new book The Second Machine Age – argue that robots and algorithms are poised to...
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