From Phoebus to witches to death clocks: why we are taking predictive technologies to the extremeAI & SOCIETY - - Trang 1-13 - 2024
Simona Chiodo
In the following article, I shall focus on emerging technologies that increasingly try to predict our death, i.e. when we will die and from what cause. More precisely, I shall focus on the possible answer to the following philosophical question: why are we taking predictive technologies to the extreme? First, I shall reflect upon the results of recent empirical research. Second, I shall address th...... hiện toàn bộ
Intelligent agents as innovationsAI & SOCIETY - Tập 18 - Trang 364-381 - 2004
Alexander Serenko, Brian Detlor
This paper explores the treatment of intelligent agents as innovations. Past writings in the area of intelligent agents focus on the technical merits and internal workings of agent-based solutions. By adopting a perspective on agents from an innovations point of view, a new and novel description of agents is put forth in terms of their degrees of innovativeness, competitive implications, and perce...... hiện toàn bộ
Bowling alone in the autonomous vehicle: the ethics of well-being in the driverless carAI & SOCIETY - - Trang 1-13 - 2022
Avigail Ferdman
There is a growing body of scholarship on the ethics of autonomous vehicles. Yet the ethical discourse has mostly been focusing on the behavior of the vehicle in accident scenarios. This paper offers a different ethical prism: the implications of the autonomous vehicle for human well-being. As such, it contributes to the growing discourse on the wider societal and moral implications of the autonom...... hiện toàn bộ
Decision making, computer attitudes and expert systems: What is our direction?AI & SOCIETY - Tập 3 - Trang 133-141 - 1989
Peter P. Mykytyn
Expert systems have been concerned with applications dealing with medical diagnosis, mineral exploration, and computer configuration, with some efforts relatively successful in achieving results at least as good as human experts. Today, much is being written about these systems and managerial decision-making activities in organizations and the positive impact that they can have in these situations...... hiện toàn bộ
Produktion 2000 — Trying to jointly improve technology, organisation and qualificationAI & SOCIETY - Tập 12 - Trang 21-28 - 1998
Tom Martin
Produktion 2000 is a German federal framework programme which supports the development of technology, organisation and qualification for production in industry. The Programme was launched in 1995 in view of the urgent need for improvement felt by industry itself after a very careful analysis and definition phase. The Programme is managed by a special Agency on behalf of the Federal Ministry. Their...... hiện toàn bộ
Children’s perceptions of social robots: a study of the robots Pepper, AV1 and Tessa at Norwegian research fairsAI & SOCIETY - Tập 36 - Trang 205-216 - 2020
Roger Andre Søraa, Pernille Søderholm Nyvoll, Karoline Blix Grønvik, J Artur Serrano
This article studies perceptual differences of three social robots by elementary school children of ages 6–13 years (n = 107) at research fairs. The autonomous humanoid robot Pepper, an advanced social robot primarily designed as a personal assistant with movement and mobility, is compared to the teleoperated AV1 robot—designed to help elementary school children who cannot attend school to have a ...... hiện toàn bộ