The Goodbye Problem Computerphile

Summary

You say "bye" first! - no, you say "bye" first! - how do you know when to close the connection? Dr Richard G. Clegg of Queen Mary ... Two PHP Exploits hit the news last week. Dr Steve Bagley explains how dangerous they could be. Read about the chip ... Alan Turing almost accidentally created the blueprint for the modern day digital computer. Here Mark Jago takes us through The ... How do you implement an on/off switch on a General Artificial Intelligence? Rob Miles explains the perils. Part 1: ... A web app that works out how many seconds ago something happened. How hard can coding that be? Tom Scott explains how ... Why it's a bad idea to build a Virtual Private Network using TCP. Dr Steve Bagley on TCP over TCP... As AI systems become more capable, rule-based safeguards, hard-coded restrictions, and simple alignment strategies start to ... Just how did the team at Bletchley Park tackle the Bug Byte puzzle here - bit.ly/4bnlcb9 - and apply to Jane Street programs here - bit.ly/3JdtFBZ (episode sponsor). Why are code and data so separate? Robert Smith of Rigetti Quantum Computing explains how he uses Lisp code to generate ... They're called 'Finite State Automata" and occupy the centre of Chomsky's Hierarchy - Professor Brailsford explains the ultimate ... How well sorted is your algorithm? Choosing the right method to sort numbers has a huge effect on how quickly a computer can ... Part 1 of a Series on AI Safety Research with Rob Miles. Rob heads away from his 'Killer Stamp Collector' example to find a more ... No internet, no networking; just a screen and a keyboard, or a pile of cards to punch holes in; mainframes were a world apart from ...