Tag: artificial intelligence

There's a fascinating article on LegalAffairs.org (the self-styled "magazine at the intersection of law and life" on artificial intelligence and legal/ethical/socialogical considerations relating to it. Despite disagreeing with a few of it's points, it's well-written and excellently-presented. Go read it.

In case the site stops publishing the article, I've made a copy, below. Click on the …

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Do you remember a week or two ago I wrote about a guy who patented the "Ethical Rules Of Artificial Intelligence"? Well - it looks like he's read my article and placed his own comments. I'm quite surprised and impressed that he took the time (away from his heavy schedule of philosophising or book-signing or …

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Some goon (sorry: Californian counsellor) has patented Inductive Inference Affective Language Analyzer Simulating Artificial Intelligence (including the Ten Ethical Laws Of Robotics). It's nothing but unintelligible babble, interspersed by (inaccurate) references to artificial intelligence theory. The author (who also writes a book on family values with a distinct evangelic slant, from which most of the …

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Fun in the sun.

Kit and I had an idea for something like this a while back, and we were …

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I've just written an artificial intelligence gamebot, designed to pseudointelligently play simple board games which involve a finite upper number of moves and a board of tokens - for example: Connect Four, Noughts & Crosses, Go!, or Othello. It uses the (appropriately-written) rules of the game in order to pre-anticipate a vast number of moves, …

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