[Air-L] What can/should computers do?

[Giorgio Guzzetta]

Perhaps Kevin Kelly's What Technology
Wants<http://www.kk.org/books/what-technology-wants.php>could be
helpful



On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:48 PM, MacDougall, Robert <
robert_macdougall at post03.curry.edu> wrote:

> Eric, All..
>
> One more seminal piece is Norbert Weiner's Cybernetics.  Also can be quite
> theoretical in sections, but invaluable to your inquiry I'd think.  He
> rewrote swaths of it, adding plenty of concrete examples and such, in  The
> Human Use of Human Beings.
>
> As for non-expert stuff, I haven't too many leads.  But Jaron Lanier's You
> are not a Gadget likely gets at some of what you are looking for there.  I
> heard him speak and chatted briefly with him last summer and know that he
> has some very important things to say regarding your general question.
>
> Good luck,
>
> -rob
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Eric P. S. Baumer
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:05 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-L] What can/should computers do?
>
> Hello air-l-er's,
>
> I'm looking for literature reporting on empirical investigations of
> perceptions about both what computers can do and what computers should do.
>
> I'm familiar with a number of philosophical pieces considering potential
> abilities and/or limits of computers (Turing, Minsky, Dreyfus, Weizenbaum,
> etc.). However, most of those are philosophical or abstract arguments made
> by philosophers of or researchers in artificial intelligence. I've not been
> able to find any work that examines lay or non-expert beliefs about either
> what computational systems are (not) capable of or what are (in)appropriate
> tasks for computational systems to perform.
>
> To sum up, here's what I'm looking for:
> - perceptions of computers' (suit)abilities
> - empirical research (not philosophical arguments)
> - emphasis on lay/non-expert perceptions (not researchers in AI)
> - bonus points if related to natural language processing
> - bonus points if related to political coverage, opinions, and/or bias
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~Eric
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