Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]
Artificial intelligence means making a computer do something that appears clever to humans. Fully general artificial intelligence remains an elusive and far-off goal; but many relatively 'intelligent' behaviors are now common even from consumer devices, for instance, recognizing a human face or playing a difficult game of chess.
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Does Gödel's argument that minds are more powerful than computers have the inconsistency loophole?
In "Raatikainen, P., 2005, “On the Philosophical Relevance of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems,” , the author argues that Penrose's and others use of Gödel's theorem as an argument against mechanism (...
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Infinite regresses and AI: are they compatible?
I haven't been thinking about this very long, but when I encounter an infinite regress, I recognize it as a problem and then look for ways around that (avoid, make it virtuous, I don't know). I may ...
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What do humans do uniquely, that computers apparently will not be able to?
The question is often brought of what computers will be able to do as well or better than humans. We could ask a more definitive question: what do humans do that we never expect computers to do, no ...
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What is intention?
Recently, I asked a question "Can LLMs have intention?". But I'm sorry that the word "intention" was not clearly defined there. When I think about it, I realize I got confused, ...
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Have the inventors of LLMs/image-generators/w/e fulfilled Kant's assertion about the "art" of the productive imagination?
Consider the part of the following text (from Kant) that I've emphasized in bold:
The conception of a dog indicates a rule, according to which my imagination can delineate the figure of a four-footed ...
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Has anyone specified the relation between a virtuous person and the virtues, or what is virtue? [closed]
Has anyone specified the relation between a virtuous person and the virtues? I am wondering if it is only metaphorical, that a virtuous person e.g. bears her virtues, or if it can be stated in terms ...
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Who was the first philosopher to describe what we now call artificial intelligence?
Who was the first philosopher (e.g., Greek or pre-Socratic) to define or describe what we now call artificial intelligence?
In your answer, first discusses
the natural vs. artificial distinction (e.g....
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Can LLMs have intention?
In many movies, you have seen an AI robot moving here and there, doing this and that with an intention. Is it possible that a generative AI-like language model (e.g., ChatGPT) could ever do that?
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Does the use of AI make someone more intelligent?
Does the use of AI make someone more intelligent? I think I remember this coming up in the SEP, with respect to whether access to the internet means I "know" (or similar) everything that ...
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What are the retorts to Searle's Chinese Room?
Searle's Chinese Room basically argues that a program cannot make a computer 'intelligent'.
Searle summarises the argument as
Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room ...
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Are Life and Intelligence analogous?
Let me explain what I mean. From the standpoint of biology, life is often defined by having a metabolism, the ability to reproduce, evolve, etc. (There is no single definition so far as I can tell.)
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When is a subject position in a discourse antagonistic with others?
Just trying to relate my ladybird book of Foucault knowledge (though I've read him) to chat-gpt. When is a subject position in a discourse antagonistic with others? When is an LLM that is more ...
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How does human intelligence differ from Searle's chinese room?
The Chinese Room argument attempts to prove that a computer, no matter how powerful, cannot achieve consciousness.
Brief summary:
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Who was the first philosopher to describe approximation?
Who was the first philosopher to describe what we now call curve fitting or approximation?
Pierre Duhem discusses this a bit in Aim & Structure of Physical Theory, pt. 2, ch. 3 "Mathematical ...
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Are there forms of judgment or intelligence which include the capacity to disobey?
Are there forms of judgment or intelligence which include the capacity to disobey? Ideally, AI will lack this, but then does that mean its intelligence is lacking anything?
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