Tag: "computers and AI"

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]

Black Mirror Reflections

Terri Murray illustrates Marcuse’s critique of technologised society using an episode of the British TV series Black Mirror.
[Issue 97: July/August 2013: Television]

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)

Alistair MacFarlane on how a poet’s daughter invented the concept of software.
[Issue 96: May/June 2013: Brief Lives]

The Art of World-Making

Mikhail Epstein sees a bright future for metaphysics in the hi-tech age.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013: Appearance and Reality]

The Minds of Machines

Namit Arora considers the complexity of consciousness and its implications for artificial intelligence.
[Issue 87: November/December 2011: Brains & Minds]

The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil

James Williams has a singularily good time.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011: Books]

Mathematics, Morality & Machines

William Byers, mathematician, and Michael Schleifer, moral theorist, use their judgement to calculate the improbability of a machine thinking like a human being.
[Issue 78: April/May 2010: Articles]

The Conscience Of The Machine

by Wendell Wallach
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Editorial]