EFF "Net Culture - Artificial Life & Intelligence" Archive

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artifice_and_intelligence.paper: Alan Roberts attempts to debunk Artificial Intelligence. (1993)
artificial_life.article: Article by Seeker1 about the development of "artificial life," programs that model cellular evolution and the effect of such programs on science, from biology to physics.
brookings.newsbyte: Brief newsbite about a new program developed at the Brookings Institute that models societal evolution.
fuzzy_logic_japan.article: short article about software design in Japan, illustrating a fuzzy logic concept (3 values instead of only "true" or "false": "true", "false", "not false" in which "not false" may be set to "false".
hycon.concept: Explanation of the concept of the "hycon": a computer "agent", artificially intelligent, and considered an entity with its own rights, even citizenship.
wallowing_in_lingo.html: "Wallowing in the Quagmire of Language: Artificial Intelligence, Psychiatry, and the Search for the Subject" by Phoebe Sengers. "Let's face it, people are prejudiced against machines. Once you start thinking your therapist is a computer, it's hard to think of her as compassionate, as real, as understanding you, as a _subject_. This is a fundamental problem Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers face."

Explanation of the concept of the "hycon":: a computer "agent", artificially intelligent, and considered an entity with its own rights, even citizenship.
New Science - link to directory on new areas of scientific exploration.: Though the material ranges from complexity theory to life extension, look here for A-life/AI-related subjects like nanotechnology and bio-computing.