Happy New Year to you too. One that already needs an extra dose of optimism and kindness.

My concept of “common sense” is essentially the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, or good and bad, or indeed love and hate, not based on a probabilistic rationalisation but on an intrinsic human trait.

Having now read this fascinating article, I fully recognise its logic and appreciate the crucial importance of its conclusion, but machine-consciousness still seems to be the result of mathematical formulas which could be numerically right but in conflict with common sense.

Thanks. From my perspective, consciousness is inherently human in the sense that a machine is simply replicating human-like traits using mathematics, but I will read this piece with great interest.

I can imagine.
They are all beautiful.
And then there is the violin concerto to top it off.

You absolutely need to get to concerto No. 5 and your life will change forever. Any recording will do but if you have to choose one, try the one by Rudolf Serkin and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

To evidence this, the Information Commissioner's Office is launching a review of the data practices of 10 popular mobile games played by children in the UK.

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Or a library!