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The Turing Test
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, from Facebook’s facial recognition software to medical diagnostics. However, serious thought about AI predates our current computational capabilities by many years. Long before even Hal’s mental breakdown in 2001, Alan Turing was wrestling with a very important question: when might we be able to say that a machine had recreated…
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I am a Woman. And I have a Penis.
The i paper shared this performance by trans poet Reece Burrows Lyons. It’s a powerful piece. I am a Woman. And I have a Penis
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21st Century Sex
Recently four Irish rugby players were acquitted of the rape of a young woman. A detailed account of the trial was published by the Irish Times. If the paper’s report is at all accurate, it seems probable that the victim was indeed raped. So confused and contradictory were the accounts of the defendants that the…
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Internalised Transphobia
This post sounds rather po-faced, but for all that the term “internalised transphobia” has an aura of radical activism about it, I believe it’s a real phenomenon. I’m a part-timer and some of the issues that I face are different from those faced by folks who’ve transitioned. But I think this experience of being our…
Mrs Benn 