• Although AI has come on in leaps and bounds of late, it is still only ‘intelligent’ in the narrowest sense of the word. It would probably be more useful to think of what we’ve been through as a revolution in computational statistics than a revolution in intelligence.

• It’s like the saying among airline pilots that the best flying team has three components: a pilot, a computer and a dog. The computer is there to fly the plane, the pilot is there to feed the dog. And the dog is there to bite the human if it tries to touch the computer.

• Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell and Thore Graepel. ‘Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior’, vol. 110, no. 15, 2013, pp. 5802–5.

• Wu Youyou, Michal Kosinski and David Stillwell, ‘Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 112, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1036–40.