Tag: Rodney Brooks

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Mind Matters
Date
October 1, 2018

Categorized
Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors

Tagged
Nancy Pearcey, Rodney Brooks, sex robots}

Are sex robots a cure for loneliness?

_{Maybe, in a culture where people see themselves as machines} _{Mind Matters
October 1, 2018

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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors}

Nancy Pearcey, who is the author of Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality, reminds us that the most popular metaphor for the universe today is a vast machine. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 12, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence

Tagged
Apocalypticism, Elon Musk, predictions, Rodney Brooks, Stephen Hawking}

AI machines taking over the world?

_{It’s a cool apocalypse but does that make it more likely?} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 12, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

Doomsday thinking is easily mocked. The character marching hairy and barefoot under his “End Is Near” sign, is a staple of cartoons in middlebrow mags. Yet when media magnets market doomsday scenarios—like the late Stephen Hawking (“worst event in the history of our civilization”) and Elon Musk (“an immortal dictator from which we would never escape”) — it’s a Cool apocalypse.