On the Philosophy of Unsupervised LearningPhilosophy & Technology - - 2023
David Watson
AbstractUnsupervised learning algorithms are widely used for many important statistical tasks with numerous applications in science and industry. Yet despite their prevalence, they have attracted remarkably little philosophical scrutiny to date. This stands in stark contrast to supervised and reinforcement learning algorithms, which have been widely studied and cri...... hiện toàn bộ
Ethical Idealism, Technology and Practice: a ManifestoPhilosophy & Technology - Tập 35 - Trang 1-24 - 2022
Joan Casas-Roma
Technology has become one of the main channels through which people engage in most of their everyday activities. When working, learning, or socializing, the affordances created by technological tools determine the way in which users interact with one another and their environment, thus favoring certain actions and behaviors, while discouraging others. The ethical dimension behind the use of techno...... hiện toàn bộ
Toward an Ethics of AI Assistants: an Initial FrameworkPhilosophy & Technology - Tập 31 - Trang 629-653 - 2018
John Danaher
Personal AI assistants are now nearly ubiquitous. Every leading smartphone operating system comes with a personal AI assistant that promises to help you with basic cognitive tasks: searching, planning, messaging, scheduling and so on. Usage of such devices is effectively a form of algorithmic outsourcing: getting a smart algorithm to do something on your behalf. Many have expressed concerns about ...... hiện toàn bộ
The Ethical Limits of Blockchain-Enabled Markets for Private IoT DataPhilosophy & Technology - Tập 33 - Trang 411-432 - 2019
Georgy Ishmaev
This paper looks at the development of blockchain technologies that promise to bring new tools for the management of private data, providing enhanced security and privacy to individuals. Particular interest presents solutions aimed at reorganizing data flows in the Internet of Things (IoT) architectures, enabling the secure and decentralized exchange of data between network participants. However, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Fiction Puzzle: Storiable Challenge in Pragmatist Videogame AestheticsPhilosophy & Technology - Tập 27 - Trang 201-220 - 2013
Veli-Matti Karhulahti
This paper surveys the ontological and aesthetic character of puzzles in worlds with storytelling potential, storiable worlds (potential storyworlds). These puzzles are termed fiction puzzles. The focus is on the fiction puzzles of videogames, which are accommodated to John Dewey's pragmatist framework of aesthetics to be examined as art products capable of producing aesthetic experiences. This le...... hiện toàn bộ
Becoming-Mobile: the Philosophy of Technology of Deleuze and GuattariPhilosophy & Technology - Tập 35 Số 2 - Trang 1-25 - 2022
Wellner, Galit
Deleuze and Guattari’s Thousand Plateaus includes some useful concepts to understand technologies and their relations to humans as individuals and as a society. This article provides an introduction to their notions of machine and becoming and places them in the context of technological use in general, with a special focus on the cellphone. The concept of machine exceeds the technological context,...... hiện toàn bộ
Biobanks as Exteriorized Memories of LifePhilosophy & Technology - Tập 35 - Trang 1-18 - 2022
Emanuele Clarizio
The aim of this article is to consider biobanks through the conceptual tools of French Thought and twentieth-century French philosophy of technology. Firstly, two pairs of authors and their respective conceptions of the relationship between technics and memory are considered: on the one hand, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, who thought of memory and technics on the model of writing; on the o...... hiện toàn bộ