David Shorten’s days are often spent gently coaxing his robot minions into yielding publishable results. Highly absorbed in the ‘weirdly interesting’ he combines his background research to understanding data and artificial intelligence. Slides from talks presented at Mammoth BI in Cape Town on 17 November 2014. Visit www.mammothbi.co.za for details on the event. Follow @MammothBI on twitter.

1. FUTURES RE-IMAGINED
Speaker 16 of 17
David Shorten
Artificial Intelligence
Followed by
Georgina Armstrong

6. Alien Maths
A = 휋 푟↑2

12. Survival of the Fittest

15. Artificial Life
Artificial Chemistry
Complex Systems

16. “You start with a random clump of atoms,
and if you shine light on it for long enough, it
should not be so surprising that you get a
plant” – Jeremy England