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Tag Archives: AI
The barrier of meaning
In the post on the Chinese room, while concluding that Searle’s overall thesis isn’t demonstrated, I noted that if he had restricted himself to a more limited assertion, he might have had a point, that the Turing test doesn’t guarantee … Continue reading
Add feelings to AI to achieve general intelligence?
Neuroscientists Kingston Man and Antonio Damasio have a paper out arguing that the way to get artificial intelligence (AI) to the next level is to add in feelings. “Today’s robots lack feelings,” Man and Damasio write in a new paper (subscription required) … Continue reading
Machine learning and the need for innate foundations
This interesting Nature article by Anthony M. Zador came up in my Twitter feed: A critique of pure learning and what artificial neural networks can learn from animal brains: Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have undergone a revolution, catalyzed by better … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, Brain, Evolution, neural networks
36 Comments
Detecting consciousness in animals and machines, inside-out
An interesting paper came up in my feeds this weekend: Indicators and Criteria of Consciousness in Animals and Intelligent Machines: An Inside-Out Approach. The authors put forth a definition of consciousness, and then criteria to test for it, although they … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged AI, animal consciousness, Artificial intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Evolution, Mind
67 Comments
The ASSC 23 debate on whether artificial intelligence can be conscious
The ASSC (Association of Scientific Study of Consciousness) had its annual conference on consciousness this week, which culminated in a debate on whether AI can be conscious. Note: the event doesn’t actually start until the 28:30 minute mark. The remaining … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Brain, Consciousness, Mind, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind
52 Comments
Protecting AI welfare?
John Basl and Eric Schwitzgebel have a short article at Aeon arguing that AI (artificial intelligence) should enjoy the same protection as animals do for scientific research. They make the point that while AI is a long way off from … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged affect consciousness, AI, Artificial intelligence, Consciousness, Science
55 Comments
Is superintelligence possible?
Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers sat down to “debate” the possibility of superintelligence. I quoted “debate” because this was a pretty congenial discussion. (Note: there’s a transcript of this video on the Edge site, which might be more time efficient … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers
24 Comments
SMBC on what separates humans from machines
Source: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (Click through for full sized version and the red button caption.) My own take on this is that what separates humans from machines is our survival instinct. We intensely desire to survive, and procreate. Machines, … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, SMBC
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Why we’ll know AI is conscious before it will
At Nautilus, Joel Frohlich posits how we’ll know when an AI is conscious. He starts off by accepting David Chalmers’ concept of a philosophical zombie, but then makes this statement. But I have a slight problem with Chalmers’ zombies. Zombies are … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, Artificial intelligence, Consciousness, Mind, Philosophy of Mind
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AI and creativity
Someone asked for my thoughts on an argument by Sean Dorrance Kelly at MIT Technology Review that AI (artificial intelligence) cannot be creative, that creativity will always be a human endeavor. Kelly’s main contention appears to be that creativity lies … Continue reading