Artificial intelligence's new frontier: Artificial companions and the fourth revolution

Metaphilosophy

Volumn 39, Issue 4-5, 2008, Pages 651-655

  Floridi, Luciano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial companions; Computer revolution; Inforg; Infosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 61149627218     PISSN: 00261068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9973.2008.00573.x     Document Type: Article

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