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Computational linguist Frank Rudzicz begins his lecture by drawing an analogy between automated news and automated healthcare. Facebook’s algorithm learns from your behavior, identifying the news sources and headlines you… Continue reading "‘Ethics of AI in Context’ Lecture Series: The Future of Automated Healthcare"
Presenter Sunlit Dias, a neurosurgeon, is both wary and hopeful about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine. He is hopeful of AI’s role in designing treatment plans, medication… Continue reading "‘Ethics of AI in Context’ Lecture Series: AI in Medicine"
The C4E Journal is an open-access academic publication of the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. The C4E experiments with a new academic publishing format, aiming for a… Continue reading "‘Ethics of AI in Context’ Lecture Series"
Researchers at MIT are now exploring “machine-learning strategies” as a means of regulating dosages of chemotherapy and radiotherapy administered to cancer patients, writes Rob Matheson in a recently published article… Continue reading "Can machine-learning help make cancer treatment less toxic?"
Is a machine that meets Minsky’s Maxim intelligent? Not necessarily. Certain machines are built for what engineers call the “4Ds”: machines built for the purposes of performing tasks deemed too… Continue reading "Strong vs. Weak Artificial Intelligence (AI)"
In Artificial Intelligence: The Very idea, John Haugeland introduces four common responses people have to the very idea of artificial intelligence (AI). Note: By “AI,” Haugeland means GOFAI (Good Old… Continue reading "4 Common Responses to the Idea of AI"
Earlier this year, we discussed whether robots were better at reading than humans. In that blog post, we learned that, according to Bar Ilan University lecturer Yoav Goldberg, it is mistaken… Continue reading "Can a Robot Pass a University Entrance Exam?"
It appears another big Silicon Valley company has plans to open an artificial intelligence (AI) lab in Canada. In a recent job posting on LinkedIn, Adobe is looking for candidates… Continue reading "Adobe to potentially open artificial intelligence lab in Canada"
Don’t we already have a good measure of intelligence by which to test artificial intelligence (AI) systems—IQ? The short answer is: no. The longer answer comprises two reasons, as posed… Continue reading "Why IQ is Irrelevant for AI"
Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence, or GOFAI, is a term coined by John Haugeland in his book Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985). GOFAI rests on the idea that… Continue reading "GOFAI, or Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence"
