Machines That Teach Better Than Books?

Toward machines that behave ethically better than humans do

With the increasing dependence on autonomous operating agents and robots the need for ethical machine behavior rises. This paper presents a moral reasoner that combines connectionism, utilitarianism and ethical theory about moral duties. The moral decision-making matches the analysis of expert ethicists in the health domain. This may be useful in many applications, especially where machines int...

The Truth on Fitness: Are Cables Better Than Selectorized Machines?

How Books Will Become Machines

We shape our tools and they shape us in return. Trapped in an invisible technological loop, we underestimate the pervasive impact of the tools we use, ignorant of the fact that each technological transition can change the way we act, feel or think. Worse, our understanding of technological evolutionary dynamics is still in its infancy. We are missing the equivalent of a Darwinian Theory of Evol...

Better than Nature: Nicotinamide Biomimetics That Outperform Natural Coenzymes.

The search for affordable, green biocatalytic processes is a challenge for chemicals manufacture. Redox biotransformations are potentially attractive, but they rely on unstable and expensive nicotinamide coenzymes that have prevented their widespread exploitation. Stoichiometric use of natural coenzymes is not viable economically, and the instability of these molecules hinders catalytic process...

A Fusion Method That Performs Better Than Best Sensor

In a multiple sensor system, sensor Si , i = 1 , 2 . . . , N , outputs Y ( i ) E [0,1], according to an unknown probability distribution Py(; )Ix , in response to input X E [0,1]. We choose a fuser, that combines the outputs of sensors, from a function class 3 = {f : [0, 1IN [0,1]} by minimizing empirical error based on a sample. If F satisfies a simple isolation property, we show that the fuse...