Tag: "computers and AI"

Homo informaticus

Luc de Brabandere lets us sail with him along the two great rivers of thought that have flowed down the centuries from ancient philosophy into modern computer science, from Plato and Aristotle to Alan Turing and Claude Shannon.
[Issue 141: December 2020 / January 2021: Articles]

The Shock of Things to Come

by Rick Lewis
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Editorial]

Pascal’s Artificial Intelligence Wager

Derek Leben computes the risks of general AI.
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Future Shocks]

Robot Rules!

Brett Wilson judges the case for laws for robots.
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Future Shocks]

The Battle for the Robot Soul

James K. Wight looks at how cultures define our views of machines.
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Future Shocks]

Phil Witte’s Cartoon

by Phil Witte
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Cartoon]

Paul Wood’s Cartoon

by Paul Wood
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Cartoon]

Simon & Finn

by Melissa Felder
[Issue 139: August/September 2020: Cartoon]

Probably Approximately Correct by Leslie Valiant

Joshua Schrier is approximately correct, probably.
[Issue 136: February/March 2020: Books]

The Astrobiological Cat

Predrag Slijepcevic questions standard views of intelligence by thinking on an evolutionary scale.
[Issue 135: December 2019 / January 2020: Articles]