If even artificial intelligence advocates have largely abandoned the idea that AI is ultimately algorithmic, it’s time to question a lot of related assumptions, some of which I already have.
First, the human mind, then, is clearly not algorithmic. And, it’s likely even less algorithmic than a computer.
Second, being “kludged” together by evolution, it’s most surely not a black box, like a modern software program, routine, or subroutine.
Third, running off that point, contra Dan Dennett, evolution is most assuredly not algorithmic, either, as I’ve said before.
Fourth, the Turing test, as stipulated by Alan Turing himself, was NOT about whether a machine could think, but about whether a machine could simulate thinking. In other words, in modern philosophy terminology, Turing was a functionalist, as is Dennett (on this issue, at least), even as he continues to deny it.
Anyway, read the full story linked above.
This is a slice of my philosophical, lay scientific, musical, religious skepticism, and poetic musings. (All poems are my own.) The science and philosophy side meet in my study of cognitive philosophy; Dan Dennett was the first serious influence on me, but I've moved beyond him. The poems are somewhat related, as many are on philosophical or psychological themes. That includes existentialism and questions of selfhood, death, and more. Nature and other poems will also show up here on occasion.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
AI, computers, minds, algorithms, evolution, Dennett
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artificial intelligence,
Dennett (Dan),
evolution,
Turing test
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