Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge

Michael Wooldridge

Dr. Michael Wooldridge is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His current research is at the intersection of logic, computational complexity, and game theory. He has published more than 400 articles in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, as well as nine books, the most recent of which is A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence.

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Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
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6 min
How World War II codebreaker Alan Turing invented modern AI.
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8 min
A University of Oxford professor explains how conscious machines are possible.
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From the first computer to modern AI: how to tell if machines are intelligent.