Tag: machine learning
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The Semantic Incongruity of Calling Machines “Human”
Computers may resemble us in spirit, and may sometime soon make “intentional” judgments, but conferring on them a higher distinction, “human,” perpetuates semantic absurdity.
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An Automation Action Plan
JFK urged government and industry to ease those “inevitable dislocations and hardships” brought forth by new technology. That displacement is here, people are hurting, and we’re blindfolding ourselves.
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Building brains: An ethical dilemma in AI
Retired from 40 years teaching computer science at George Washington University, Professor Emeritus of Engineering Peter Bock remains as ambitious as ever, determined to construct an artificially intelligent being whose cognitive abilities match that of humans in “every conceivable way.”
Matt Schwartz 