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Reading Time: 9 minutesSaint 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...
Reading Time: 3 minutesA 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...
Reading Time: 5 minutesProbability, 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...
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)...
Reading Time: 6 minutesInterview 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...
Reading Time: 11 minutesLanguage 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...
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Back to Future #1: Heinz von Foerster (1911-2002) – “Ethics cannot be articulated! Ethics is acted.”
Reading Time: 10 minutesHEINZ 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...
Reading Time: 10 minutesThe 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...
Reading Time: 6 minutesDoes the Universe have a musical soul? Do algorithms are a musical soul?
Reading Time: 5 minutesThere 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...
Reading Time: 7 minutesThe “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...
Reading Time: 6 minutesIsaac 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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