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It happens almost every weekend: Okuri (送り) arrives at the table and delivers our lunch. Okuri is a robot working in a shopping centre restaurant. Or, more precisely, a stack of food trays and a tiny screen on top of a Roomba-like platform. We order the food through an app, and…
Do algorithms dream of electric sheep? What is creativity? Can a machine, an algorithm, be creative? A dictionary definition would have creativity as “the use of imagination or original ideas to create something.” Can a machine use imagination? Can an algorithm create original…
How to ensure the proper use of ChatGPT—and similar tools—in business?
NKVD In March 1940, in the middle of the night, NKVD guards banged on my grandmother’s door. Maria was to be deported by the Soviets from Poland to Siberia. Her crime? She was a teacher. The guards gave her 20 minutes to pack up, take her children, and leave the house. She had…

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Forty-five years ago, Bill Gates banged his fist on the table and asked people to pay up. At the time, almost no one thought you could make money…
[This post has also been shared with subscribers of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy newsletter. You can follow it here.] I came back from China with…
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A few months ago, I took part in a discussion on law reforms in the context of automated decision making and administrative law. Recently, the…
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