Tag: Computational Sciences
The World’s Ideal Storage Medium Is “Beyond Silicon”
The best storage medium needs no introduction. You’re already using it.
Turn Over Child-Raising to a Computer?
Mattel’s new “smart baby monitor,” their digital nanny dubbed Aristotle, leaves me flummoxed.
#10 of Our Top Stories of 2016: Tyson Says Chances of Intelligently Designed Universe “May Be Very High”
But of course he was referring to the odds that the universe is an artificial computer simulation by advanced aliens.
Robert Marks: What Computers Will Never Do
Many Artificial Intelligence researchers wrongly believe that intelligence arises from the application of algorithms.
In Election 2016, Why Big Data Took a Tumble
Human judgment and insight, especially trained human judgment and insight, are irreplaceable.
Computers Should Not Be Granted Patents
In order to receive a patent, the subject of the protection must be a human invention.
Artificial Intelligence: Good Aim, Wrong Target
Let’s shoot for “Assisted Intelligence” instead.
Artificial Intelligence Has a Morality Problem
The Moral Machine is an interactive version of the Trolley Problem.
Richard Dawkins’s Weasel Program Is Bad in Ways You Never Dreamed
His reductive approach causes him to miss a delicious irony.
Intelligent Design and the Computer Analogy
Imagine if computer science allowed researchers to consider the physical components of computers but not the “ideas” that drive them.