Something for the weekend - who's winning the game of AI? (And whose league are we playing in anyway?)
AI is increasingly framed as a game to win these days. I often find myself pondering this in some form or another, looking for evidence that perhaps my team is ahead in some meaningful way. Rarely does anyone ask who I think might be winning. This is a good thing, since I am not entirely sure what we are competing for when they ask.
I recently attended a Millennium Technology Prize panel at the Finnish ambassador's residence on Kensington Palace Gardens -- the biennial Finnish award that has, over the past two decades, recognized innovations from the World Wide Web to next-generation DNA sequencing.
The room was full of past laureates, nominators, and people working on what might come next, when Professor Sir Shankar Balasubramanian FRS -- the Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Trinity College, and a 2020 laureate for the...
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