Ethics

Lots of people have written about the impact of generative AI on the world of software engineering, and while I write this I’m fighting with CoPilot to stop filling out the rest of the sentence. Gimme a second… … That’s better. Anyway. This is just a blurb/brain-dump of a shower-thought. Don’t come to me for deep insightful stuff about the productivity gains about Generative AI in Software Development, or whether it will be the end of ‘Juniors’ in software engineering, or how we’re going to grow juniors in future. ...

This is a Rough Transcript from The Virtual Bash on Ethics Introduction Around two thousand, two hundred and 20 years ago, Archimedes said “Give me a place to stand and I will move the world”. Archimedes has come to be (rightly) associated with many fundamental innovations in mathematics and engineering, and while I’m sure we’re all sick and tired of screws and levers and jumping out of bathtubs, I’d like to start off with a discussion on one of his more mundane creations, the compound pulley. ...

This is an approximate transcript from my July 2018 talk at Digital DNA’s AI NI Community Panel on wether the use of AI in defence and surveillence was inherently evil Yes, It’s been sitting in my drafts folder for months because I completly forgot about it, sorrynotsorry Hello folks, I’m Andrew Bolster, most everyone calls me Bolster. And nobody calls me Doctor. I’m a Data Scientist at Alert Logic, a cyber security firm based Texas but with a research office in Weavers Court where we monitor, analyse and identify malicious and suspicious internet activity, protecting thousands of companies with advanced sequence and pattern matching sensors deployed across the world. ...