Tag: robots
Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story
The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning.
All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)
In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them.
Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)
Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?
Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done
Some evolutionists still don’t get it. You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism.
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.