Tag: "computers and AI"

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]

Artificial Consciousness: Our Greatest Ethical Challenge

Paul Conrad Samuelsson takes the perspective of the computer for a change.
[Issue 132: June/July 2019: Articles]