Tag: "computers and AI"

Studying Smarter with AI?

Max Gottschlich on sense and nonsense when using AI in academia.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Digital Philosophy]

Affirmative Action for Androids

Jimmy Alfonso Licon asks, when should we prioritise android rights?
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Digital Philosophy]

Is VR Meaningful Escapism?

Amir Haj-Bolouri enquires into possible meaning through technology.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Digital Philosophy]

Perhaps unshockingly for someone who is an actor, broadcaster, comedian, director, narrator and writer, Stephen Fry has a deep interest in words and how we use them. After hearing him lecture on that subject, Marcel Steinbauer-Lewis asked him about Artificial Intelligence and how it connects with the extraordinary lure of language.
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Interview]

Guto Dias’ Cartoon

by Guto Dias
[Issue 168: June/July 2025: Cartoon]

Technologists & Ethicists

Stephen L. Anderson laments inadequate moral insight among tech leaders.
[Issue 166: February/March 2025: Articles]

Seeing & Knowing

Shashwat Mishra explores the limits of perception via the Molyneux problem.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025: Articles]

How Can We Make A Computer Conscious?

Each answer below receives a random book. Apologies to the entrants not included.
[Issue 165: December 2024 / January 2025: Question of the Month]

We’re as Smart as the Universe Gets

James Miles argues, among other things, that E.T. will be like Kim Kardashian, and that the real threat of advanced AI has been misunderstood.
[Issue 164: October/November 2024: Thoughts on Thought]

The Black Widow Case

Dave Hangman on a crucial lawsuit taking place the day after tomorrow.
[Issue 163: August/September 2024: Fiction]