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What Should AI Be Doing?

What Should AI Be Doing?

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:May 22, 2020
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/nonduality/philosophy

I recently finished Brian Cantwell Smith's excellent book The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment. It's a bit different from other recent popular books on AI, as it is…

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Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI

Uncertain Preferences, Transformative Experiences, and AI

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:March 5, 2020
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/philosophy/religion

I recently finished Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, and I highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past 5-10 years…

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Consciousness and A.I.

Consciousness and A.I.

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:January 29, 2020
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy of mind

I am reading Stuart Russell's new book Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, and highly recommend it. A lot has been written in the past few years…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part IV

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 31, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/language/philosophy of mind

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…

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Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

Blogging “Artificial You,” Part III

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 9, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

Chapter 3 of Artificial You has three basic purposes: Explaining why AI might develop in such a way that superintelligent AIs are not conscious. Explaining that we might need to…

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Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II

Blogging “Artificial You”, Part II

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:December 3, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy of mind

In this post, I'll review Chapter 2 of Schneider's book Artificial You. The previous review post is here. The Problem of AI Consciousness In Chapter 2, Schneider introduces what she…

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Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I

Blogging Susan Schneider’s “Artificial You”, Part I

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 29, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy of mind

I've recently started reading Susan Schneider's new book Artificial You, and have decided to write about it as I go. The subtitle is "AI and the Future of Your Mind,"…

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Machines and Understanding

Machines and Understanding

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:November 7, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/philosophy/philosophy of mind

This recent blog post by Thomas Dietterich has received much well-deserved attention. And while the title What does it mean for a machine to "understand"? sounds like a philosophical work,…

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A.I., Common Sense, and Thinking

A.I., Common Sense, and Thinking

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 25, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness

On the question of "Can computers think?", I've had a few posts focusing on the Chinese Room argument. In a nutshell, it's an argument against strong A.I. and the claim…

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Libet and Free Will

Libet and Free Will

  • Post author:Gabriel
  • Post published:September 12, 2019
  • Post category:artificial intelligence/consciousness/neuroscience

The Atlantic has an article on free will and Libet's experiments that has been getting a lot of attention the past few days. It is actually discussing work from several…

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