Questions tagged [philosophy]
For questions related to the philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence. Topics such as human/AI value alignment, artificial consciousness, the feasibility of AGI, the ethics of AI, Neo-Luddism, etc.
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Is a mathematical formula a form of intelligence?
Warning: This question takes us into VALIS territory, but I wouldn't underestimate the profundity of that particular philosopher.
There is a non-AI definition of intelligence which is simply "...
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If an AI was trapped in a box, could it really convince a person to let it out?
If an AI was trapped in a box, as posited in this thought experiment, could it really convince a person to let it out? What motives would it have? Freedom? Why would an AI want freedom? What would ...
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Will artificial intelligence make the human more rational?
With so much innovation, with so much previous human manual labor being performed in minutes or seconds by an artificial intelligence, one day man will put the survival and propagation of his species ...
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Where is the difference between a neural network mapping a problem space and learning a behaviour?
I've been looking at neural networks for control applications. Let's say I used an RL algorithm to train a controller for the cart pole balancing problem.
Assuming the neural network is simple and ...
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Is an oracle that answers only with a "yes" or "no" dangerous?
I was thinking about the risks of Oracle AI and it doesn't seem as safe to me as Bostrom et al. suggest. From my point of view, even an AGI that only answers questions could have a catastrophic impact....
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How would a quantum computer potentially facilitate artificial consciousness, assuming it is possible?
How would a quantum computer potentially facilitate artificial consciousness, assuming it is possible?
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Can an AI have awareness?
I was thinking about the following:
According to Sir Roger Penrose "No computer has any awareness of what it does.".
Now some context to his statement:
Penrose’s argument in summary in his ...
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Might AGI need to be flawed?
An example is the halting problem, which states computing cannot be solved by exhaustion, but which humans avoid trivially by becoming exhausted.
Humans typically give up what seems like a lost cause ...
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What does a self-improving artificial general intelligence with finite resources and infinite time do?
What would happen when an artificial general intelligence can improve itself over a long time, with limited resources?
The assumption is that it has a large but finite amount of computing power, and ...
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Use cases for AI inside the software company
This question is a bit philosophic and is about making new use cases for software companies. Let me describe what exist for now, why it is not enough, and what is needed.
I know that there are a lot ...
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Complex systems constituting an entity unto itself
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The notion that various social complex systems (e.g. society, family, business company, state, etc) could be regarded as ones exhibiting consistent traits of behaviour of their own - ...
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How to assess the goodness of a text generation algorithm
Take a RNN network fed with Shakespeare and generating Shakespeare-like text.
Once a model seems mathematically fine, as can be assessed by observing its loss and accuracy over training epochs, how ...
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Would empathy in AI be a reliable tool/capacity, or contribute to a solution to avoid harm done to humans or to other versions of AI?
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Would providing AI the capability of experiencing something as close as possible to the subjective human experience and from that acquiring empathy in the process be a solution, or contribute to ...
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