Tag: "computers and AI"

Is Everything A Computer?

Paul Austin Murphy computes the probabilities.
[Issue 124: February/March 2018: Articles]

Freedom 2199

Jonathan Sheasby discovers some unexpected perils of AI.
[Issue 124: February/March 2018: Short Story]

News: December 2017 / January 2018

Human brains to connect to cloud storage! • Mini human brains implanted in rodents! • Psychologists study moral intuition — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018: News]

The Rise of the Intelligent Authors

Lochlan Bloom wonders what writers will do when computers become better writers than humans.
[Issue 123: December 2017 / January 2018: Articles]

News: October/November 2017

Philosophic Park: Beware of Intellectual Dinosaurs! • Robot Council jerks into motion • Scientists tamper with the stuff of life (again) — News reports by Anja Steinbauer
[Issue 122: October/November 2017: News]

The Philosophy of Creativity edited by Elliot Paul and Scott Barry Kaufman

Les Reid has a creative response to a book on the philosophy of creativity.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Books]

Westworld

Leo Cookman performs an Unheimlich manoeuvre to review a disturbing android saga.
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Television]

Bill Stott’s Cartoon

by Bill Stott
[Issue 120: June/July 2017: Cartoon]

Information, Knowledge & Intelligence

Alistair MacFarlane considers the differences between these crucial concepts, and the implications for how we think about computers.
[Issue 98: September/October 2013: Articles]

Focusing On The Brain, Ignoring the Body

Alessandro Colarossi says that Artificial Intelligence is in danger of a dead end.
[Issue 97: July/August 2013: The Self]