NATO is a treaty. It's an agreement which binds signatories to 14 articles . These are (summarised): Try to settle differences peacefully Be proactive at promoting peace Develop individual and collective defence capabilities Consult with each other over claimed border disputes An attack on one is an attack on all. All members will defend any member under attack Defines where and what is defined as an attack Abide by UN charter Not currently doing anything that conflicts with these articles Form a council to manage membership Be able to unanimously invite other nations to join Process of membership ratification managed by USA Review after 10th year Process to leave managed by USA Documentation about the treaty is stored in USA It also exists to maintain peace, as the name suggests, in the North Atlantic. So if my idea to invite Russia and China, and maybe every other nation on Earth to join including North Korea and Iran, Article 6 will need to be modified to a planetwide treaty ra...
I am tired of reading and hearing statements by press and politicians alike that companies like OpenAI (the creators of ChatGPT) started the AI revolution. Just today, with the announcement of the Stargate data centre project, the BBC's Verify (?!) website stated "OpenAI kicked off the AI race in 2022". I'm not claiming that a little company in London called Tome Associates Ltd, of which I was a founding director, started AI in the 1980s. There were already plenty of people exploring it around the world at the time. Indeed a project called Logic Theorist, developed in 1955 by Newell and Simon at the Rand Corporation in California, is probably the world's first AI application. But to the best of my knowledge, Tome Associates were the first company in the world to launch a commercial product based on AI... which subsequently met a resounding blank look from everyone we showed it to. People were fascinated, but confused about what to do with it (don't forget Tim ...