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Who was ASOS founder Quentin Griffiths? From net worth to legal turmoil with ex-wife

Who was ASOS founder Quentin Griffiths? From net worth to legal turmoil with ex-wife

The founder of ASOS has died at the age of 58 after falling from a balcony in Pattaya, Thailand. Quentin Griffiths was found dead on 9 February, after falling from his 17th-floor apartment in the coastal city. The entrepreneur co-founded Asos in 2000 and served as its marketing director until 2005, when he left to pursue other interests. A police investigator told the BBC that Quentin was by himself, his room was locked from the inside, and there was no trace of any break-ins at the time of the death. An autopsy did not reveal any evidence of foul play. © Hepple/City Am/ShutterstockMandatory Credit: Photo by Alice Hepple/City Am/Shutterstock (819475q) Quentin Griffiths at his London home Various City AM Who was Quentin Griffiths? As well as the co-founder of ASOS, Quentin Griffiths was a father to five children. He shared three children with his first wife. Following his divorce, he moved from the UK to Thailand, where he found love again with his second wife, and they welcomed a son and a daughter. What was …

What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths

What to read this week: The Laws of Thought by Tom Griffiths

Dwight Ellefsen/FPG/Archive The Laws of ThoughtTom Griffiths, William Collins (UK) Macmillan (US) FOR nearly 70 years, cognitive researchers have been fighting a civil war. On one side is computationalism, which argues intelligence is best explained by rules, symbols and logic that can be expressed in equations. On the other is connectionism, where intelligence emerges from vast, connected networks modelled on the brain’s neurons, and no one component is intelligent but somehow the system as a whole is. That battle has shaped everything from cognitive science to the artificial intelligence that is now transforming the global economy. This month, two new books wade in from opposite sides. For me, the standout is The Laws of Thought: The quest for a mathematical theory of the mind. In it, Princeton professor Tom Griffiths traces the long attempt to formalise thinking in mathematical laws, explaining why modern AI is the way it is – and what the future may hold. Griffiths frames the story around three competing and increasingly entangled mathematical ways of formalising thought: rules and symbols, neural …