Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV
In Chapter 4 of the book, Schneider discusses possible tests of consciousness for artificial agents. I'll briefly summarize the tests here and add a few comments: The AI Consciousness Test…
The Mindless Hypothesis
In the previous post, I talked about Alex Byrne's paper Skepticism about the Internal World (PDF). In that post, I focused on the first part of the paper, and in…
Modes of Being: Peirce and Davidson
I really enjoyed this podcast discussion between Cathy Legg and Matt Teichman. The topic is C.S. Peirce, and particularly his theory of categories, or modes of being. As Legg and…
The Chinese Room: Syntax, Semantics, and A.I.
Recently we talked about the Chinese Room argument. One of the aims of the argument is to show that strong A.I. (A.I. that has understanding or consciousness) is impossible. It's…
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The Chinese Room – Basic Overview
I wanted one of my first posts to be about the Chinese Room thought experiment, as it combines my interests in language, A.I., and consciousness. In this post, I'll lay…
Hello, World
My name is Gabriel, and I work in the areas of language, computing, and artificial intelligence. I also have a strong interest in consciousness and philosophy of mind, and this…