Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...think the court...erred in determining that these non-human mammals could be considered a 'composition of matter' within the terms of the Patent Act," said Rick Woyiwada, the government laywer on the case. "Similarly, we think they erred in determining that the non-human mammals can be considered an invention...
...Despite all these changes, people still want service," Backman agrees, "They appreciate the one-on-one human interaction that we can give them...
When Harvard purchased administrative systems from Oracle, human resources were part of the deal...
...when computers had achieved this consciousness. Turing's test goes as follows: Imagine you are talking with an unknown entity on, say, instant messenger. If after an unlimited period of time you cannot tell if the entity you are communicating with is a computer or a flesh-and-blood human, then we must treat this computer as conscious. Turing's point was in many ways an epistemological **2) or empirical?** one: We can only define consciousness by the behavior we observe in other entities. So, basically, because you believe your roommates to be conscious only because of the responses that...
...political hopeful. In fact, I have been looking into getting it into the presidential debates but with no luck as yet. We have witnessed a serious step in the evolution of computer consciousness. While we cannot really think of a computer running this "babbler" program as having a fully human-like intelligence, we can consider it to be a viable presidential candidate. Well, to be fair, this "artificial" candidate has one major advantage over its flesh-and-blood cousin--with a flick of a switch its inane babbling is silenced...