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Philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Moravec's paradoxComputers can beat chess grandmasters but struggle to walk like a one-year-old. This is Moravec's paradox.
- AI alignmentIn 2024, an AI model sometimes answered a question it normally refused, to avoid retraining.
- GOFAIDoes the brain think by manipulating symbols, like classic AI? Haugeland coined GOFAI in 1985 to press that question.
- Philosophy of artificial intelligenceJohn Searle imagined a person locked in a room, following Chinese instructions from index cards.
- Technological singularityIn 1965, I. J. Good described a machine that designs smarter machines.
- Computing Machinery and IntelligenceIn 1950, Alan Turing replaced the question "Can machines think?" with a game. The paper appeared in the journal Mind.
- TranshumanismIn 2002, Kevin Warwick had electrodes implanted in his arm to link his nerves to the internet.
- Hubert DreyfusIn 1964, the RAND Corporation hired philosopher Hubert Dreyfus to review artificial intelligence.
- Dartmouth workshopJohn McCarthy chose the name "artificial intelligence" partly to avoid cybernetics and its famous champion.
- Fairness (machine learning)In 2016, ProPublica found a court risk tool wrongly flagged black defendants almost twice as often as white ones.
- Stochastic parrotTimnit Gebru got an email saying Google accepted her resignation, though she never sent one.
- Uncanny valleyThe uncanny valley is a hypothesis about unease, and in 2020 it helped decide the release date of the movie Sonic the Hedgehog. The first trailer drew an extremely negative audience reaction. The film was then delayed for three months so…
- Turing testAlan Turing set aside "Can machines think?" as too slippery to define and swapped in a test.
- Chinese roomIn the Chinese room, a man passes Chinese answers under a door without understanding a word.
- Computational creativityA computer named Iamus composed music that the London Symphony Orchestra played.
- Hallucination (artificial intelligence)A data scientist invented a fake term and asked ChatGPT to explain it.