Chapter 26.1 - 26.2

Philosophy

• Weak AI Hypothesis: machines could possibly act intelligently
• Strong AI Hypothesis: machines can actually think

Weak AI Counterarguments

• Disability argument: a machine can never do X
• Mathematical argument: Goedel's incompleteness theorem
• Informality argument: human behavior is too complex to capture by a set of rules

Strong AI Counterarguments

• Consciousness
• Free Will
• Brain-in-a-vat
• Brain prosthesis experiment
• Searle's Chinese Room
• Phenomenology: study of direct experience
• Intentionality: mapping of machine's beliefs to real world

General Questions

• What is intelligence?
• What is a good definition of artificial intelligence?
• What is thinking?
• What is understanding?
• What is creativity?
• What is consciousness?
• What are emotions?