“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but, ‘Can they suffer?’” – Jeremy Bentham Any discussion of the ethics of Artificial Intelligence is muddied by a social misunderstanding of the conceptual underpinnings of intelligence itself. Wikipedia defines Intelligence “a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as the …
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Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Research
As computing power continues to increase at a rapid pace mankind is beginning to ponder the ethics questions involved in the possible creation of artificial intelligence. If we succeed at creating artificial intelligence or AI then we have effectively created life to some degree and we must suddenly face many challenges that we have never …
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May 17, 2007
Finally Oreo and I get a real doggie-daddy day! We have really missed each other recently. So I slept in a little this morning and skipped my morning workout so that Oreo and I could get some time together before the work day started and so that my body could heal a little after working …
May 16, 2007: Day Three of the Dieting
I got up at six this morning and headed on down to the gym. I was really tired after having exercised so late last night but it has to be done. I didn’t quite manage to do thirty five minutes today coming it at around thirty-two and a half minutes. But it wasn’t bad. I …
May 15, 2007: Farmer Day
Scott Adams informs us today that the actor who played Scotty on Star Trek who had his ashes sent into space didn’t make it into space but ended up in a forest somewhere. This is what you get for being weird and extravagant even after you have died. I slept in until seven thirty this …