David Papineau on AI and Agency
David Papineau talks about AI and Agency
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Tim Crane on AI and Agency
Tim Crane on AI and Agency
Announcement: AI and Agency Interview Series
We are pleased to announce a new interview series exploring the philosophical implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The rapid development of AI has reignited interest in fundamental questions of consciousness and agency. Previously confined to theoretical discourse, these issues now demand re-evaluation in light of AI’s burgeoning capabilities. In this …
Alan Turing and Neural Computation
(Caveat: for the sake of exposition, at times I articulate past views in slightly anachronistic terms; I do my best to capture the gist of what Alan Turing and others meant in terms that contemporary readers should find perspicuous.) The computational theory of cognition says that cognition is largely explained …
CFA: Kinds of Intelligence 3 – Cognitive Science Beyond the Human
The third annual Kinds of Intelligence conference will be held in Cambridge, UK from June 22-25 2020. The conference brings together researchers from philosophy, cognitive science and artificial intelligence to address questions concerning the structure, function and nature of intelligence and cognition, with a particular emphasis on non-human intelligences – …
Reasoning About Deceit: 1. The Computational Perspective
[The following is Part I in a two-part guest post by Will Bridewell and Alistair M. C. Isaac. — JS] We live in an age of post-truth rhetoric, fake news, and misinformation; consequently, questions of how to accurately identify deceptive communication and to appropriately respond to it have become increasingly …
2. Psychological and Computational Models of Sentence Processing
Last time, I argued that there are substantive open questions about whether the theoretical constructs of formal linguistics play any role in the psychological processes underlying language use. Let’s now address those questions. When people talk about “the psychological reality of syntax”, there are (at least) two importantly different types …