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Toy Robot looking at itself in mirror
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Author
Jay Richards
Date
February 5, 2019
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Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind
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That Robot Is Not Self-Aware

The way the media cover AI, you'd almost think they had invented being hopelessly naïve
Jay Richards
February 5, 2019
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Machine Learning, Philosophy of Mind
If this is how The Telegraph reports on a robotic arm, can you imagine what it will sound like when we get humanoid robots who seem to carry on conversations? We had best inoculate ourselves now against AI hype from science reporters while most of us still have enough self-awareness to realize what’s going on. Read More ›
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Author
Jonathan Bartlett
Date
January 10, 2019
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Machine Learning, Social Factors
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It’s 2019: Begin the AI Hype Cycle Again!

Media seemingly can’t help portraying today’s high-tech world as a remake of I, Robot (2004), starring you and me.
Jonathan Bartlett
January 10, 2019
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Machine Learning, Social Factors
I have a problem with the possible outcomes when people who don’t know the difference between technology fact and fiction make important decisions based on information from journalists who write as if every computer is a potential personality like HAL from Space Odyssey 2001. Read More ›
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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
August 16, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture
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Screenwriters’ Jobs Are Not Threatened by AI

Unless the public starts preferring mishmash to creativity
Robert J. Marks
August 16, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

An AI-generated film is not an altogether new idea. Rule-based expert systems were used to write short plays over a half century ago, in the early 1960's. Then, as now, don’t expect creativity. That is not what AI does.

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