Economics, artificial intelligence and the rise of machine learning
It’s fair to say that computers have come a long way. Wind the clock back 80 years and Colossus, one of the first electronic computers, whose name was fitting of its size, was built during the second world war to decrypt secret German codes. Almost inconceivably, it used vacuum tubes and paper tape to perform several basic Boolean (e.g. true/false) logical operations. But fast forward to 2018 and not only do we carry them around in our pockets, but computers