Do Electrons Really Exist? Science has defined the nature of the world through an assortment of things that are observed in the physical world and those that are unobservable‚ improvable theories that explain the world. Electrons are unobservable. We cannot experience their existence with our own human senses. Do electrons really exist‚ or are they just useful fictions? Antirealists would explain that they do not exist because you cannot observe them. Realists would argue that electrons
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eztaylor@ncsu.edu Abstract: This paper summarizes research at the intersection of accounting information systems (AIS) and ethics to call attention to significant gaps in the literature and to provide directions for future research. It reviews and synthesizes ethics research related to the major functions of AIS: recordkeeping‚ reporting‚ and control‚ with a focus on data and on the use of AIS as a management control system. The paper presents a broad view of data management‚ discussing ethical issues
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and instructions‚ data‚ software‚ information technology infrastructure and internal controls. People The people in an AIS are simply the system users. Professionals who may need to use an organization ’s AIS include accountants‚ consultants‚ business analysts‚ managers‚ chief financial officers and auditors. Procedure and Instructions The procedure and instructions of an AIS are the methods it uses for collecting‚ storing‚ retrieving and processing data. These methods will be both manual and automated
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History of Artificial Intelligence The history of artificial intelligence (AI) began in antiquity‚ with myths‚ stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen; as Pamela McCorduck writes‚ AI began with "an ancient wish to forge the gods." The seeds of modern AI were planted by classical philosophers who attempted to describe the process of human thinking as the mechanical manipulation of symbols. This work culminated in the invention of the programmable
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resulting in what is commonly called a “runaway growth” of information‚ aka the “intelligence explosion”. Runaway growth is the idea of exponential growth compounded upon exponential growth. The way this would happen is through artificial intelligence (AI). There are futurists on both sides of the equation. On one hand‚ the optimists on this matter look to the possibility of a utopian society or at the very least‚ a chance to make the world a better place through this intelligence explosion. On the other
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concepts of the development of artificial intelligence can be traced as far back as ancient Greece. Even something as small as the abacus has in someway led to the idea of artificial intelligence. However‚ one of the biggest breakthroughs in the area of AI is when computers were invented. Many encyclopaedias and other reference works state that the first large-scale automatic digital computer was the Harvard Mark 1‚ which was developed by Howard H. Aiken (and team) in America between 1939 and 1944
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ready to alter modern and future outcomes. The future of mankind has been developing and evolving for an extensive amount of time‚ artificial intelligence is the unknown fortune of society and‚ eventually most people will have some type of contact with AI. Artificial intelligence can be used in the workplace‚ and in everyday activities. Therefore‚ adapting to artificial intelligence can eventually lead to improvements‚ and downfalls in society. Many jobs can be stressful and time-consuming. Inventions
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faces. Furthermore‚ an artificial general intelligence has similar abilities as humans do to achieve a task (Goertzel & Wang‚ 2006‚ p.5). Hal 9000 is considered to be a strong AI because he is capable of modelling himself to the human mind to such an extent that it matches or exceeds it. Kumar (2008‚ p.14) points out‚ strong AI assumes that a program has the potential of being conscious‚ self-aware‚ however it may not have the ability to process thoughts like humans. Hence‚ Hal 9000 is self-aware because
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in characterising it. The critical reasoning beyond is the radical doubt in the taken-for -granted ways of understanding the world and ourselves where the world we refer us to is not necessary real (Gergen 1985). Except for the general emphasize Hacking (1999) further states that we shouldn’t ask for the meaning but ask for the point. The aim with the paper is thus to understand his statement followed by recognizing the point with a book entitled “the social Construction of the knowledge worker”
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