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

[Matthew Lombard]

*This is old now, but it might fit the bill...

Nass, C., Lombard, M., Henriksen, L., & Steuer, J. (1995). Anthropocentrism
and computers. Behaviour & Information Technology, 14(4), 229-238. *

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:35 PM, <air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Eric P. S. Baumer <ericpsb at cornell.edu>
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> >> Hello air-l-er's,
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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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