Tag: "computers and AI"

What Is It Like To Be A Bot?

Keith Frankish asks if it’s possible to know whether humans, or robots, have minds.
[Issue 126: June/July 2018: Fiction]

Could a Robot be Conscious?

Brian King says only if some specific conditions are met.
[Issue 125: April/May 2018: Articles]

Remembering Murphy’s Law • Control cars with your mind! (What could go wrong?) • Children and chimpanzees crave revenge — News reports by Anja Steinbauer and Filiz Peach
[Issue 124: February/March 2018: News]

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]

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