The Artificial Intelligensia and Virtual Worlds StaceyEdgar Philosophy Department, SUNY Geneseo ED GAR @uno.cc.geneseo,edu Oua X P - l - ~ h e r e are many defimtions' of artificial intelligence,.. bUtl ,, |most of them boil down to something hke, Arnficia .JL. intelligence is getting machines (computers) to exhibit behavior that, if it were performed by a human, we would call intelligent." The phrase itself was born in 1956, at the Summer Research Project at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH).The term was coined by John McCarthy; other people present at the Project were Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon (ten people altogether). A year later, McCarthy went to MIT, set up the AI Lab there, and in 1962 he went to Stanford to organize the second of the three main AI laboratories in the country. Artificial intelligence and ethics So what is the relevance of artificial intelligence to computer ethics? Well, part of it has to do with the proper use of computers in sensitive and/or critical areas. With the advent of expert systems, questions arise about what are ethical uses of, for example, medical expert systems, and what uses might be unethical? Should computers be allowed to make
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The artificial intelligensia and virtual worlds
Edgar, Stacey
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Association for Computing Machinery – Jun 1, 1997
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