Kenneth Cukier
@kncukier
Deputy executive editor @TheEconomist. Coauthor of "Framers" and NYT bestseller "Big Data". Always curious - to my detriment.
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http://www.cukier.com 10-02-2011 12:38:09
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Had a fantastic conversation with Fareed Zakaria last night about his best-selling new book, Age of Revolutions... I asked him about Biden, Trump and what the French revolution has to teach us about compromise in the 21st Century... youtube.com/watch?v=EY-8g-…
Thank you, Richard Susskind, for writing and sharing your ideas. And to Kenneth Cukier for publishing my opinion piece in 2018.
#artificialintelligence #ai #fourthindustrialrevolution #4ir #wef #politics #politicians #automation #law making #legislation #law #code
Human brains do something much more significant than AI ever could: conjure up data and mental models that didn't already exist, argues Kenneth Cukier.
Joanna J Bryson, Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, and Kenneth Cukier debate whether the brain is more or less than a computer. iai.tv/video/models-m…
In most countries, college-educated voters have turned against right-wing populists
Not so in India. Call it the Modi paradox
My piece in The Economist this week, inspired partly by countless convos with family/friends in India who 😍 Modi but 😬 Trump
economist.com/asia/2024/03/2…
In my Bloomsbury Books UK interview earlier last week, I was asked which my favourite bookshops around the world were. My sad but true answer: most of them have closed down.
Why civil-engineering should not use math. Why astronomy should not use telescopes. Why biology should not use microscopes. Why epidemiology should not use information. Why science cannot—and should not—become statistics-driven!
Oh The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! Really?
On Bach’s birthday, enjoy our latest acquisition Bodleian Libraries, the autograph MS of his cantata for Ascension Day: ‘Auf Christi himmelfahrt allein’, from the collection of the late Sir Ralph Kohn, gifted through AIL. On display now in our ‘Write, Cut, Rewrite’ show!