Tag: "computers and AI"

Machines and Moral Reasoning

Thomas M. Powers on how a computer might process Kant’s moral imperative.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

How Machines Can Advance Ethics

Susan Leigh Anderson and Michael Anderson relate how their attempts to build ethical machines have advanced their understanding of ethics.
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Machine Morality]

Man in the Middle: Animals, Humans and Robots

by Joel Marks
[Issue 72: March/April 2009: Moral Moments]

Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen

Tony Beavers considers a timely understanding of machine ethics.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009: Books]

Only Human

Peter Worley’s heroine discovers that love goes deeper than the senses can penetrate.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008: Fiction]

Minds and Computers: An Introduction to AI by Matt Carter

Nicholas Everitt thinks about Matt Carter thinking about computers thinking.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008: Books]

Do Computers Have Syntax?

Michael Philips on the question of whether computers can think.
[Issue 39: December 2002 / January 2003: Articles]

Detecting Androids

Antoni Diller isn’t one. And he can prove it.
[Issue 25: Winter 1999/2000: Articles]

Just Science Fiction?

Andrew Reynolds says not..
[Issue 23: Spring 1999: Articles]

Cleaning out the Chinese Room

Could computers have minds? Julian Moore criticises John Searle’s famous thought experiment.
[Issue 22: Winter 1998/99: Articles]