From Angels to Artificial Agents? AI as a Mirror for Human (Im)perfections.
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems paradoxically combine high levels of certain types of intelligence and cognitive capacities (pattern recognition, reasoning, learning, memory, perception, etc.) with an absence of understanding and sentience (feeling, emotion). Apparently, it is possible to make...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 59; no. 3; pp. 661 - 676 |
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Open Library of Humanities
Sep2024
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