Philosophy Library Session by Peter Barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil en-us 2016-10-27 14:45:27 UTC 2020-01-23 09:54:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Link for later p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133647573 link ]]> 2016-10-27 14:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133647573 Statement 1 p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133648270 “AI-based agents, even ones, which are intelligent, autonomous, linguistically adept and capable of fluent social interaction, will always be just ‘non-conscious behavers’ if such capacities are fundamentally based only on computational architectures implemented in electronic components”

Journal Article by Prof. Steve Torrance (University of Sussex)

Torrance, S. (2008). Ethics and consciousness in artificial agents. AI & SOCIETY, 22(4), 495-521.



]]> 2016-10-27 15:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133648270 Statement 2 p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133648575 “Another way of putting the argument is to say that computer programs can pass the Turing test [of consciousness] for processing the syntax of a language, but that the syntax cannot lead to semantic meaning in the way strong AI advocates hoped.”

Wikipedia

Wikipedia (2016) Consciousness. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness#Artifact_consciousness [Accessed 17/10/16]



]]> 2016-10-27 15:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133648575 Statement 3 p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133648886 “I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

Journal Article by Prof. Alan Turing (University of Manchester)

Turing, A. M. (1950). Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, 59(236), 433-460



]]> 2016-10-27 15:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133648886 Statement 4 p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133649574 “Both [AI: Artificial Intelligence and Robots] consider capitalism’s alliance with technoscience to profit from people’s desire for the perfect child: the commodification of the child/body under contemporary capitalism.” 


Book Chapter by Dr. Naarah Sawers (Deakin University, Australia)

Sawers, N. (2010). Building the Perfect Product: The Commodification of Childhood in Contemporary Fairy Tale Film. In Fairy Tale Films: Visions of Ambiguity (pp. 42-59). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press



]]> 2016-10-27 15:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133649574 Statement 5  p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133650038 “Indeed, future AIs, should they ever wax philosophical, may pose a “problem of carbon-based consciousness” about us, asking if biological, carbon-based beings have the right substrate for experience. After all, how could AI ever be certain that we are conscious?” 

Blog Post by Susan Schneider

Schneider, S. (2016). The problem of AI Consciousness. Kurzweil: Accelerating Intelligence available at: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-problem-of-ai-consciousness [Accessed 17/10/16] 



]]> 2016-10-27 15:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133650038 Statement 6 p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133650459 “A conscious machine is not logically impossible, if the machine meets the relevant criteria.  Whether technology will ever advance enough to meet those criteria remains to be seen, and is a question to be answered by computer scientists more than philosophers.” 

Conversation with Dr. Fran Cunningham (University of Sheffield)

Cunningham, F. (2016). Personal Communication. [Jessop West Cafe 01/08/2016] 



]]> 2016-10-27 15:05:34 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133650459 What Questioibn p_barr https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133651180 2016-10-27 15:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/p_barr/phil/wish/133651180