Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: AI/Robotics
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Continuing the process of organizing reference material I’ve generated a non-exhaustive bibliography for the engagement of religion with artificial intelligence. It’s available here (PDF), and also from the sidebar on the front page. Some material got culled from the more extensive collection, including a range of articles from Christianity Today in the 1980s about robots,…
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After managing to find this week’s NZ Listener (it gets delivered 7 days before the week it’s for, and often gets misplaced) I see the lead article is on the accelerating pace of technological change. A quick skim though highlights that it picks up on genetics, robotics and nanotechnology in the typical popular fashion. I’ll…
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Report on the American Association for Artificial Intelligence celebrating 50 years of AI research. See Wired News: The Wisdom of Robots.
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Article here on the BrainGate, a device the integrates the human brain with computer systems. Using an array of hair-thin electrodes implanted in his brain, a 25-year-old quadriplegic man was able to operate a computer, open and close a prosthetic hand, and manipulate a robotic arm just by thinking about it, according to a new…
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Well, I still can’t do it – but this robot can. In about 36 seconds. Watch the video at TechEBlog » Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot.
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A couple of links relating to ethical considerations of emerging technologies. No sex please, robot, just clean the floor – Sunday Times – Times Online notes the call by some for ethical guidelines to be developed with respect to robot/AI research. Ethical guidelines for both developers and users. BetterHumans.com : An uplifting evening with James…
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Article I missed when it came out a few months back, but directly connected to the thesis edits for next week. See Science & Theology News – I, robot? Ethical considerations of cyborgs Crittenden said cyborgs may provoke humanity to engage in what he calls “self-deselection†— the idea that in replacing parts of our…
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Wow. Maybe the commercial spinoff will be a TV you can change channels on without having to move any muscles. See Wired News: Brain Waves Make Robot Move In a video demonstration in Tokyo, patterns of the changes in the brain taken by an MRI machine, like those used in hospitals, were relayed to a…
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Picked up a copy of Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids by Sidney Perkowitz this week from the university bookshop. It looks quite interesting and I admit that once I saw the blurb on the back about science fiction movies – just after I’d edited some similar ideas in my introduction – I was…
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Short video clip at EVTV1 of a humanoid robot – She´s A Robot. Not quite Commander Data but more realistic than some other attempts.