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First Steps Towards an Ethics of Robots and Artificial Intelligence
This article offers an overview of the main first-order ethical questions raised by robots and Artificial Intelligence (RAIs) under five broad rubrics: functionality, inherent significance, rights and responsibilities, side-effects, and threats. The first letter of each rubric taken together conveniently generates the acronym FIRST. Special attention is given to the rubrics of functionality and inherent significance given the centrality of the former and the tendency to neglect the latter in virtue of its somewhat nebulous and contested character. In addition to exploring some illustrative issues arising under each rubric, the article also emphasizes a number of more general themes. These include: the multiplicity of interacting levels on which ethical questions about RAIs arise, the need to recognise that RAIs potentially implicate the full gamut of human values (rather than exclusively or primarily some readily identifiable sub-set of ethical or legal principles), and the need for practically salient ethical reflection on RAIs to be informed by a realistic appreciation of their existing and foreseeable capacities
Informatics Research Institute (IRIS) June 2001 newsletter
Welcome to the first edition of the Information Systems Institute's Research Newsletter. This Newsletter will be published four times a year (March, June, September and December), and will be published on the ISI research web page. The aim of the Newsletter is to facilitate the exchange of information related to research activities in ISI. Submissions are welcome from staff and research
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The Advocate
Headlines Include: Mrs. Ferraro Has The Right Credentials; Dean\u27s Message; Justice O\u27Conner To Speak At Building Dedicationhttps://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/student_the_advocate/1029/thumbnail.jp
Thinking Beyond Credit
Credit is often seen as an indispensable vehicle for the poor to get out of poverty, or as the tool that allows farmers to get access to new technologies, to increase productivity and their incomes. But many existing credit programmes often undermine farmersâ independence, tie them into dependency relationships, and oblige them to take all the risk. There are better ways to help farmers build their own resource base and independenc
Computational entrepreneurship: from economic complexities to interdisciplinary research
The development of technology is unbelievably rapid. From limited local networks to high speed Internet, from crude computing machines to powerful semi-conductors, the world had changed drastically compared to just a few decades ago. In the constantly renewing process of adapting to such an unnaturally high-entropy setting, innovations as well as entirely new concepts, were often born. In the business world, one such phenomenon was the creation of a new type of entrepreneurship. This paper proposes a new academic discipline of computational entrepreneurship, which centers on: (i) an exponentially growing (and less expensive) computing power, to the extent that almost everybody in a modern society can own and use that; (ii) omnipresent high-speed Internet connectivity, wired or wireless, representing our modern dayâs economic connectomics; (iii) growing concern of exploiting âserendipityâ for a strategic commercial advantage; and (iv) growing capabilities of lay people in performing calculations for their informed decisions in taking fast-moving entrepreneurial opportunities. Computational entrepreneurship has slowly become a new mode of operation for business ventures and will likely bring the academic discipline of entrepreneurship back to mainstream economics
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I'm sorry to say, but your understanding of image processing fundamentals is absolutely wrong
The ongoing discussion whether modern vision systems have to be viewed as
visually-enabled cognitive systems or cognitively-enabled vision systems is
groundless, because perceptual and cognitive faculties of vision are separate
components of human (and consequently, artificial) information processing
system modeling.Comment: To be published as chapter 5 in "Frontiers in Brain, Vision and AI",
I-TECH Publisher, Viena, 200
Developing lifelong learners: A novel online problemâbased ultrasonography subject
Online learning environments have a major role in providing lifelong learning opportunities. Lifelong learning is critical for successful participation in today's competitive work environment. This paper describes an online problemâbased learning approach to the creation of a studentâcentred learning environment for the study of the biological sciences subject in the Graduate Diploma of Applied Science (Medical Ultrasonography) course at the University of Sydney. The environment is interactive and collaborative, with all communication taking place online. Students work in groups to study clinically relevant problems. A Webâdatabase system provides learner control in the process of knowledge acquisition, access to reference materials on the Internet and communication with the tutor and with peers through synchronous chat and asynchronous threaded discussion forums. Other online features include a protocol for problemâsolving, selfâassessment and feedback opportunities, detailed help, streaming audio and video and preâcourse, ongoing and postâcourse questionnaires. This technology may be adapted to a range of disciplines and can also be utilized in onâcampus teaching
One More Revolution to Make: Free Scientific Publishing
Computer scientists are in the position to create new, free high-quality
journals. So what would it take?Comment: Taken from
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/cacm/2001-44-5/p25-apt/ Posted
with permission of the AC
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