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…
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…
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…
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…
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,"…
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,…
I think John Searle is largely right in his skepticism about strong A.I. -- as I describe here, here, and here in the context of the Chinese Room argument --…
I've written about the Chinese Room a couple of times now. In an initial post, I gave a basic overview and discussed the Systems Reply. In a follow-up, I talked…
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…
