Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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Der Turing-Test und John Searles Gedankenexperiment vom chinesischen Zimmer, von Lulu Zhao

March 31st, 2017 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

Durch die Entwicklung der Informatik und der Kognitions-Wissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert wurde die traditionelle Philosophie des Geistes Gegenstand wissenschaftlicher Erforschung. Diese Wandlung ist dabei auf eine Computer-Analogie des menschlichen Gehirns zurückführen. Als Ergebnis dieser Paradigmenwechsels entstand das Thema der künstlichen Intelligenz.
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Blockchain Technology and Self-Driving Cars, by Alan N. Shapiro

February 19th, 2017 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

The Internet which has boomed in the last 20 years developed at its beginnings without any conscious thought being given to issues like security, privacy, peer-to-peer transactions, intellectual property rights, digital rights management, creativity, entrepreneurship, and the handling and cultivation of value.
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“Ex Machina”: The End of Turing’s Man and the Paradigm Shift in Artificial Intelligence, by Alan N. Shapiro and Franco Torriani

March 9th, 2016 in the categories: Artificial Intelligence

The founder and CEO of the mega-company Bluebook is a genius programmer who wrote the source code of the Bluebook search engine when he was 15. Philosophically, the CEO is a technological determinist. He believes that Artificial Intelligence is inevitable. AI is a simple linear outgrowth of, or extrapolation from, the further incremental development of computer science as we know it. The breakthrough of Artificial Intelligence, for Nathan, is not such a big deal. It's on its way, it's coming to a theatre near you.