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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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I prompt an AI into generating something; who created it: me, the AI, or the AI's author?

I've been struggling with this question recently: Question: I prompt an AI into generating something; who created it? I can think of arguments in quite a few directions: I created it: The AI is an advanced tool (like a computer) that allows me to…
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Is the Turing test a legitimate test to compare Robots to Human?

The Turing Test has been followed as a test that robots need to complete in order to be termed "Human-Like". But to what extent is this test justified? I mean, whatever the test maybe, the robot/ computer only understands machine code. If we were to…
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When does simulating something produce a real effect of that thing?

I was just listening to an interview with David Chalmers where he opined that if one could accurately simulate the brain, consciousness would arise in the simulation. Are there any other instances where that happens or anyone expects it to happen?…
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Is our idea of Artificial Intelligence incorrect?

IBM Watson's first incarnation was to be a competitive opponent on the show Jeopardy, where it was able to interpret the semantics of the questions with impressive accuracy, and find relevant answers. More recently, IBM is starting to broaden the…
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Can a machine generate an "idea"?

In modern AI, we feed machines a large amount of data to solve problems. I was recently reading a paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.07068.pdf) which used ideas from psychology in order to train a network to generate art. I guess for one to become…
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Could Watson be used to answer philosophical questions?

IBM's Watson computer is known for winning the Jeopardy quiz show against the top human players. It has also been put to cancer research. Watson works by analyzing large chunks of texts to come up with answers, not relying on structured data such as…
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Can we recognize the existence of a Strong AI after it is created?

It is, of course, debatable whether a Strong AI even can exist. After all, philosophical arguments about the Chinese Room and Philosophical Zombies abound. However, it is possible to imagine a world where "Strong AI" is possible and yet people…
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Is self-improving artifical inteligence really unlimited?

In complex enviroment, better inteligence gives you better chance to survive. But complexity of every real-world environment is finite. Assume that more inteligence need more computing power, more resources. Then one day self improving inteligence…
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Any publications on the Fermi paradox and GAI?

Is there any reason to think that GAI, in every conceivable form and with any possible safeguard, will annihilate any civilization that builds it, thereby solving the Fermi paradox (assuming that every civilization must build it for space travel)? I…
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what ethical rules must developers of AI adhere to for humane reasons?

As developers and neurologists advance their studies of intelligence, artificially intelligent software will be pursued. This may result in virtual entities which feel, think, and exist in a different but perhaps no less coherent/sentient way than…
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Do you think a program could understand our world and explore beyond?

New to StackExchange ! The question is very abstract, sorry for that. I was wondering if it was possible for a program to understand our world. What I mean by "understand" is that it could have a way of saving information about the reality and…
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Will Artificial Intelligence eventually be capable of feeling emotion?

My coworkers and I are having an argument regarding AI feeling emotions. Basically, the overarching question is whether or not AI will eventually be able to feel emotions. Here are the arguments. First, we do not understand emotions within our own…
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Is Elohim a person in "The Talos principle"?

Im not sure whether to put this here or on Arqade SE, but since the game is very philosophical, I post it here. In the game "The Talos Principle", humanity has gone extinct a very long time ago. In the last years/months of existence, they built a…
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Which contemporary American researchers in the philosophy of AI might be considered most significant?

I'm about to start graduate studies with an AI philosopher, and I'm hoping he's considered a leading researcher. Apart from trying to gauge his reputation, I'm trying to become familiar with the research landscape. I am acquainted with only…
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Reincarnation as the "lottery ticket hypothesis" in neural networks?

Excuse if this is not the right place for posing this question: I am not an expert in any of these areas, just an idea that came to my mind which I wanted to discuss: The lottery ticket hypothesis for neural networks is this: (…
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