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What do you mean by “consciousness”? pt. 3 Maybe the mind and the self are a kind of system of information or a pattern, analogous to the software and structured data in a computer. It’s not physical, it’s an arrangement of a set physical things that represents an information system. This has the advantage over…
The I in “AI”
what is “intelligence”? It’s weird that in a set of articles about AI, I’m only finally getting around to talking about what the field of A.I. research has to say. This article relies on the leading AI textbook, part Bible and part encyclopedia: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig’s Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Intelligence Professional…
The Stepford Scenario
could you love a machine the same way you love your children? Consider this thought experiment, which is a variation on the 1972 movie “Stepford Wives”. (This version works better for parents.) Of course I did something heinous. If this was a movie, we expect you to fight to death to get your children back.…
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