by franapl | Jul 17, 2023 | Organizations
The Centre for Philosophy and AI Research (PAIR) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen, Germany was founded in 2022. PAIR’s goal is to become one of the leading-edge research centers for the study of the philosophy and ethics of AI. PAIR is located...
by franapl | Jul 10, 2023 | Social Media
Sensorium is a word referring to all of the faculties of perception as a whole. A person’s sensorium includes their sense of sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste, as well as such stimuli as pain or temperature. The etymology of the term extends back to the...
by franapl | Jul 7, 2023 | Hardware
Vacuum tubes are devices that regulate or amplify the flow of electricity. Vacuum tubes were widely used in early and mid-twentieth-century telephones, radios, televisions, and computers. They have since been replaced in most electronic products by solid-state...
by franapl | Jul 7, 2023 | Songs
“My Computer” is a song written and recorded by the musician Prince. The song appears on the third disc of the Emancipation album, which was released in November 1996. The song features the background vocals of British singer Kate Bush. “My Computer” may be a callback...
by franapl | Jul 7, 2023 | Automatons
Francine is an automaton supposedly created by French philosopher René Descartes. Descartes was interested in the possibility that living things were machines, and he wrote about this topic in his work Discourse on Method (1637). The legend of Francine is possibly...
