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bugshaw at 10:00am on 24/04/2007
bugshaw at 10:00am on 24/04/2007News #1: Crush All Hu-Mans?
The Horizon Scanning Centre released a discussion paper titled Utopian Dream or Rise of the Machines? It addressed issues such as the "rights" of robots, and examined developments in artificial intelligence and how this might impact on law and politics.
Various people are discussing it with a mixture of sense and sensationalism:
"If an autonomous robot kills someone, whose fault is it?" said Professor Winfield.
"Right now, that's not an issue because the responsibility lies with the designer or operator of that robot; but as robots become more autonomous that line or responsibility becomes blurred."
and there will be a talk on Rights for Robots this very evening at the Science Museum. Ah, cruel fate! Why is this not late May already when I'd have time to go? I could still go anyway, but dodgy backs and Projects and stuff... Maybe I could work on the train...
EDITed to fix link. Anyone interested in going with me, to assist in train-catching if my back gets bad? 7-8:30pm.
News #2:Chap from BT predicts the future will belong to women in the new "care economy".
After years of so called soft skills - such as communication - being sidelined, they will now play centre-stage.
"People will have to focus on being people, using their emotional skills," asserts Mr Pearson - with male confidence.
And, he insists, women are instinctively good at this.
Oh! If only I'd known, I wouldn't have to have worked so hard trying to identify and develop the skills. Skills I wouldn't have needed in the playground if it weren't for the boys having statistically greater height and strength and establishing dominance using that, an area where most girls couldn't compete. So we have to find other ways of interacting.
I was planning to write more, but it's only giving me ulcers. I might just have to crush him instead.
News #3: What Bridget would rather be doing today:
Making a stop-motion film of Doctor Who monster miniatures having a ceilidh. Daleks and Cybermen stripping the willow, anyone?
The Horizon Scanning Centre released a discussion paper titled Utopian Dream or Rise of the Machines? It addressed issues such as the "rights" of robots, and examined developments in artificial intelligence and how this might impact on law and politics.
Various people are discussing it with a mixture of sense and sensationalism:
"If an autonomous robot kills someone, whose fault is it?" said Professor Winfield.
"Right now, that's not an issue because the responsibility lies with the designer or operator of that robot; but as robots become more autonomous that line or responsibility becomes blurred."
and there will be a talk on Rights for Robots this very evening at the Science Museum. Ah, cruel fate! Why is this not late May already when I'd have time to go? I could still go anyway, but dodgy backs and Projects and stuff... Maybe I could work on the train...
EDITed to fix link. Anyone interested in going with me, to assist in train-catching if my back gets bad? 7-8:30pm.
News #2:Chap from BT predicts the future will belong to women in the new "care economy".
After years of so called soft skills - such as communication - being sidelined, they will now play centre-stage.
"People will have to focus on being people, using their emotional skills," asserts Mr Pearson - with male confidence.
And, he insists, women are instinctively good at this.
Oh! If only I'd known, I wouldn't have to have worked so hard trying to identify and develop the skills. Skills I wouldn't have needed in the playground if it weren't for the boys having statistically greater height and strength and establishing dominance using that, an area where most girls couldn't compete. So we have to find other ways of interacting.
I was planning to write more, but it's only giving me ulcers. I might just have to crush him instead.
News #3: What Bridget would rather be doing today:
Making a stop-motion film of Doctor Who monster miniatures having a ceilidh. Daleks and Cybermen stripping the willow, anyone?
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