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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 understanding understandable?

The first issue is defining understanding. I don't want to go too deep here, but serious readers should likely go over some commonly accepted definitions and over the field of Epistemology. To make my …
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Is there a limit to the increase of intelligence?

It depends on the specific definition of intelligence, but with a definition based on proficiency on a set of arbitrary tasks the answer is yes. For instance, if we take intelligence as multiplicative …
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Why does some AI professionals think deep learning is "intelligent"?

Partly due to the fact that deep learning can solve tasks considered to be challenging, and it does so by learning. This is the main differentiator w.r.t. old fashioned hardcoded algorithms. Indeed yo …
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Is the singularity something to be taken seriously?

Yes, it must be taken seriously. There are two main reasons: There is no sharp argument or no-go theorem against the existence of a singularity. It's unclear how fast the singularity could develop, b …
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Is the "Chinese room" an explanation of how ChatGPT works?

Yes it is a good analogy, as explained nicely by Neil. Regarding your second question: how far is AI from models that can actually understand (for some definition of "understand") textual content? H …
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Why would ASI share resources with humans?

Let's ignore the likelihood of an ASI being able alone to "take over the planet" and let's assume this could happen. Since this AI will be created by humans, and assuming it will be created with good …
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