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Philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Moravec's paradoxMoravec's paradox is one of the most counterintuitive findings to emerge from decades of artificial intelligence research.
- AI alignmentAI alignment is the effort to steer artificial intelligence toward the goals its designers actually intend, not toward goals that only look right on paper.
- GOFAIGOFAI, short for good old-fashioned artificial intelligence, is a term the philosopher John Haugeland introduced in 1985, in his book Artificial…
- Philosophy of artificial intelligenceThe philosophy of artificial intelligence sits at a crossroads that has puzzled thinkers for centuries: what exactly is a mind, and could a machine ever have…
- Technological singularityThe technological singularity is a hypothetical event in which technological growth accelerates so far beyond human control that civilization itself becomes…
- Computing Machinery and IntelligenceIn 1950, Alan Turing published a paper in the journal Mind that opened with three words that would echo through the following decades: "Can machines think?"…
- TranshumanismTranshumanism is a philosophical movement built on a single, startling conviction: that the human condition is not fixed. In 1923, the British geneticist J.
- Hubert DreyfusHubert Dreyfus walked into the RAND Corporation in 1964 with a commission that seemed routine: review the latest work in artificial intelligence.
- Dartmouth workshopOn the 2nd of September 1955, four scientists put their names to a document that would change the course of computing. John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky…
- Fairness (machine learning)The year 1964 marked a turning point in American history when the U.S. Civil Rights Act passed into law. This legislation sparked intense debate within the…
- Stochastic parrotEmily M. Bender and colleagues published a paper in 2021 titled On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?
- Turing testThe Turing test asks a deceptively simple question: can a machine think? Alan Turing posed that question in his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and…
- Chinese roomIn 1980, philosopher John Searle published a paper titled Minds, Brains, and Programs in the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
- Computational creativityComputational creativity sits at the crossing of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and the arts.
- Hallucination (artificial intelligence)In 1986, Eric Mjolsness used the word hallucination in his PhD thesis to describe a computer vision process that added detail to an image.