Posts Tagged ‘Artificial intelligence’

Artificial intelligence – Vatican conference discusses progress, benefits and limits

Tuesday, December 6th, 2016

Artificial intelligence was the subject of a conference held at the Vatican last week. One of the attendees described artificial intelligence as being “a very powerful technology”. “So I think as a society we need to think very carefully about the ethical use of technologies, and as one of the developers of this kind of Read more

Artificial intelligence — possible, but delayed

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos. It is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because Read more