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“Making Up Minds” (AI and The Human)

  • April 14, 2018September 20, 2021

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On April 4, 2018, Stephanie Dick delivered a compelling talk at the University of King’s College, Halifax, NS on how the concept of the “human” has changed in artificial intelligence research from the Cold War era to the present. Dr. Dick argued that the early research “sought to explicitly reproduce human faculties in machines.” She maintains that, today however, replicating “human” properties is secondary to the pursuit of enhancing the computational and predictive capabilities of AI systems.

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