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| Artificial intelligence: is the ability to recognize artificial systems, patterns and redundancies, to complete incomplete sequences, to re-formulate and solve problems, and to estimate probabilities. This is not an automation of human behavior, since such an automation could be a mechanical imitation. Rather, artificial systems are only used by humans to make decisions, when these systems have already made autonomous decisions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Frank Wilczek on Artificial Intelligence - Dictionary of Arguments
Brockman I 66 Artificial Intelligence/Wilczek: Thesis: There is no sharp divide between natural and artificial intelligence. People try to understand how minds work by understanding how brains function; and they try to understand how brains function by studying how information is encoded in electrical and chemical signals, transformed by physical processes, and used to control behavior. It has never proved necessary to allow for the influence of consciousness or creativity unmoored from brain activity to explain any observed fact of psychophysics or neurobiology. No one has ever stumbled upon a power of mind that is separate from conventional physical events in biological organisms. >Mind/Wilczek. No “thought waves,” separate from known Brockman I 67 physical processes yet capable of influencing physical events, seem to exist. That conclusion, taken at face value, erases the distinction between natural and artificial intelligence. (…) if we were to duplicate, or accurately simulate, the physical processes occurring in a brain - as, in principle, we can - and wire up its input and output to sense organs and muscles, then we would reproduce, in a physical artifact, the observed manifestations of natural intelligence. Nothing observable would be missing. Thus (…) we deduce that natural intelligence is a special case of artificial intelligence. [A consequence of this is that] [s]ince consciousness, creativity, and evil are obvious features of natural human intelligence, they are possible features of artificial intelligence. Wilczek, F. “The Unity of Intelligence”, in: Brockman, John (ed.) 2019. Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI. New York: Penguin Press._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Wilczek, Frank Brockman I John Brockman Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI New York 2019 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27