Machine Autonomy without Emotions?

The world is on the slippery slope towards handing serious decisions to machines: autonomous cars, war drones, robots and security surveillance systems.  The driving forces are digital technology and confidence in AI and the wide-spread belief that the behavior...

AI: Tinned Human Thought?

AI: Nothing but Tinned Human Thought? In spite of all the feverish talk about it these days, true artificial intelligence is still remaining a fancy. We know very well what to expect from an autonomously behaving animal or of a human being, yet it is only all too...