Peter Bentley

The Second World War brought devastation and horrific suffering for millions of people. But like all wars, it acted as a catalyst for rapid technological advancement

their own ways at surviving in their respective niches.

Biological brains

Grey Walter likened their brains to two sensory neurons: one for light, one for touch.

But a world where we have working AI pervasive throughout our technology also means something else. It means that we do not always know if an image or piece of music or even a passage of text is written by a human or not. This blurring of creative authorship challenges our traditional notions of creativity and authenticity in the digital age. And in case you just noticed a change of style, that previous sentence was generated by an AI, when asked to add to the first two sentences in this paragraph.

Brains also tempt us.

This blurring of creative authorship challenges our traditional notions of creativity and authenticity in the digital age

And we must deal with the fact that as much as all these smart technologies are helping us, they may also be invading our privacy by recording every detail about our lives and using that data for applications unknown to us

By the late 1940s and early 1950s, we had the first programmable computers –

Neurobiologist William Grey Walter,

After his experience in studying the human brain using the EEG, he had an idea. Instead of just studying brains, perhaps if you could make a