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Reading Time: 11 minutes Can Data Die? From Cyber Immortality to Digital Spiritism. “Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.” In “Death, be not Proud”, a poem by British 16th century metaphysical poet John Donne, there is...
“Explain Explainability” or why AI Narrative does matter. About words, terms and notions used and misused.
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Reading Time: 11 minutes Definitions. Terminologies. Explanation. Words. “Explainability” – please explain! Explainability has become a word à la mode. However it is one of the most confusing, unexplained words in the high tech industry where understanding and transparency are...
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Reading Time: 9 minutes Saint Nicholas and the AI MYTH : About the Creation of Myths. December 6, Saint Nicholas Day, is the perfect moment to ponder on the essence, the creation and the “sustainability” of myths. What makes a...
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Reading Time: 3 minutes A Brief History of… AI Names With the recent launch of Amazon ASTRO, a quick glance on AI/robot names can be quite entertaining. Human names for #supercomputers, #AI or #humanoid #robots have been an ongoing trend. Previous Next There is IBM’s Watson....
Reading Time: 5 minutes Probability, causality, and how they impact responsibility “Artificial intelligence” algorithms are probabilistic and lack causality. Can we still call them “intelligent”? and can we trust them to make decisions? The smoking gun England’s choice of penalty...
Reading Time: 6 minutes “The Chinese Room” by John Searle – No “mind” in a computer ! “Some years ago the philosopher John Searle badly shook the little world of artificial intelligence by claiming and proving (so he said)...
An interview with… Merve HICKOK – AIethicist.org / “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021”
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Interview with… Merve Hickok Founder of AIethicist.org and voted as one of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2021” 1) What is your personal definition of ethics? Following your moral compass and values to...
Reading Time: 11 minutes Language is key. Language makes us communicate. We give meaning to words and words shape our reality. Shape us. Our reality on Artificial Intelligence is blurred. Our view is foggy. People are confused. Numerous debates evolve...
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
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Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Reading Time: 10 minutes HEINZ VON FOERSTER (1911-2002) Austrian-American “Weltmensch” Born in the imperial Vienna in 1911, Heinz von Foerster, was throughout his long life blessed with the legendary Viennese flair and humor. He described himself as a...
Reading Time: 10 minutes The robots Sophia, Ai-da, Erica and other gynoids Female robots, gynoids, fembots : on a mission to soften the sharp metallic edges University of Oxford, Cambridge 2019. The artist is addressing the crowd while looking at...
Reading Time: 6 minutes Does the Universe have a musical soul? Do algorithms are a musical soul?
Reading Time: 5 minutes There are several ways to obtain an “artificial intelligence” (AI), and each one is associated with different degrees of control and predictability, with immediate ethical implications. Getting started: this “intelligence”, those “intelligences” The rest of...
Reading Time: 7 minutes The “uncanny valley” in robotics In 1970, the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori from the Tokyo Institute of Technology coinded the concept of the “uncanny valley”. In robotics, the “uncanny valley” is a hypothesis : “We are...
Reading Time: 6 minutes Isaac Asimov, an American science-fiction author, invented the 3 Laws of Robotics for one of his futuristic short stories from I, Robot (1950). The term "robot" is borrowed from the Czech science-fiction author Havel Čapek.
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