Is AI intelligent? The answer is…maybe

A new book argues that computation is the substrate intelligence in all life forms, rather than the experience of organic life, and that cutting edge deployments of artificial intelligence are already crossing that fundamental but hazy boundary.

Man and machine

Until machines can participate in that collective, embodied and ethical dimension of cognition – and there is no evidence they can – the idea that AI will surpass human intelligence remains more hype than insight.

Actually intelligent?

Is AI actually intelligent? They may seem capable of a broad range of tasks, but it is still a limited set, and they perform those tasks in a very specific way that is sometimes useful and sometimes not.

Strengthening intelligence collaboration

This is an extraordinarily rich if difficult time to be in the intelligence community, whether in Australia or in our key allies and partners.

The danger of intelligence ‘scope creep’

While Australians are often hawkish about community safety and border security, they’re far less accepting of their security agencies being given new domestic surveillance powers without government making a strong case for their use.