Tag: robots
Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex
Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging.
No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code
These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps.
Robert J. Marks on Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It
Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free?
Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication
Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm.
Where and What Is Consciousness?
If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain.