Human cloning: It can’t happen vs. It can but wouldn’t matter much.
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Jay Richards: New evangelical statement on AI avoids major pitfalls
Including irrelevance. “Although the Statement nowhere distinguishes between “weak” and “strong” AI, the signers are clearly (and rightly) skeptical that computers can become conscious moral agents.”
Jay Richards: A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind
You can picture yourself eating a chocolate ice cream sundae: John Searle’s Chinese Room scenario is the most famous argument against the “strong AI” presumption that computation-writ-large-and-fast will become consciousness: … His argument shows that computers work at the level of syntax, whereas human agents work at the level of meaning: … I still find Read More…