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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
This is easy to approach with the proper definitions.
Morals are a set of rules which improve social interactions (for multiple goals, for example, survival: it is not moral to kill because it reduces ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
If robots achieve (human-level) consciousness, we likely wouldn't have a good differentiating criteria between human and robot for ethical consideration.
On a related note, vegans argue that we don't ...
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On a reductionist/functionalist account of consciousness, would we have ethical obligations toward robots?
Consciousness cannot arise out of a machine.
If it could we would have seen it, even in a basic level. If on the other hand you believe that a machine can be made as having consciousness by design, ...
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Justice and general intelligence systems?
Depends on the specifics and those aren't really real yet and not specified in the question.
As of right now you'd look at all the humans involved in the process and if they could have prevented the ...
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Justice and general intelligence systems?
In a real incident a pedestrian was struck and killed by a
self-driving car. In this case, the automated car was
capable of detecting cars and certain obstacles in order to
autonomously navigate the ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
It depends on who you ask. This is a live question, and different thinkers have different intuitions about it.
We can start with a few of relatively uncontroversial observations:
Consciousness is ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
A lot of debate and arguments around consciousness have been about how to define it and how to measure/detect it.
You wrote, "Consciousness doesn't reveal itself except through behaviour."
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
I think that AIXI model by Marcus Hutter explains the general intelligence very well and the psychology and consciousness are just some approximations (heuristics) of this general intelligence that is ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
First of all, your question contains a lot of assertions that are certainly not everybody's opinion (about how to detect consciousness etc.).
But to your main question: as of now, all our AIs are ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
Current AI often "appears" smart, but the Large Language Models (LLMs) are not very smart. I don't claim that products like ChatGPT are not impressive, but it is at the best "mimicking&...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
AI is like mirror. It mirrors the intelligence of its creator. AI is as intelligent as the creator’s ability to smartly process the data. AI does the processing of the data as it has been programmed ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
Today it is an open question whether machines can develop consciousness.
Neuroscience is searching for the neuronal correlates of consciousness (NCC), i.e for neuronal structures and activated ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
Do we have to start rewriting the book on what consciousness really means?
Consciousness may mean two very different things: First, an organism is said to be conscious of its environment if it has a ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
Wikipedia:
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical ...
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How is AI changing our view of consciousness?
Welcome, Stas,
You ask:
How AI is Changing Our View of Consciousness?
The most important way that AI affects the study of consciousness is that it helps to make philosophy of mind experimental in a ...
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AI paradox in DKIW hierarchy
A very confused question. For one, you got the DKIW pyramid all wrong. It is a very useful framework for knowledge management, so let me try and sort that out:
Data is "the given" ie a set ...
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