Tag: design
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‘Habsburg AI’: Portrait of a metaphor and its family
A reader of my blog (yes, there is one!) recently asked me whether I had heard of “Habsburg AI”. To my shame I had not. So, I looked it up and what I found made me think, both about AI and about metaphors for AI. I have been blogging about metaphors for AI for a…
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Making and unmaking AI metaphors and magic
Twenty years ago, Noel and Amanda Sharkey, seminal contributors to early AI debates, wrote an article on artificial intelligence and natural magic which deserves to be read again today. They focus on robots and could probably not have foreseen the advances made in the last three years in generative AI, but what they say holds…
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