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Philosophy of artificial intelligence
The philosophy of artificial intelligence attempts to answer such questions as:
- Can a machine act intelligently? Can it solve any problem that a person would solve by thinking?
- Can a machine have a mind, mental states and consciousness in the same sense humans do? Can it feel?
- Are human intelligence and machine intelligence the same? Is the human brain essentially a computer?
These three questions reflect the divergent interests of AI researchers, philosophers and cognitive scientists respectively. The answers to these questions depend on how one defines "intelligence" or "consciousness" and exactly which "machines" are under discussion.
Important propositions in the philosophy of AI include:
- Turing's "polite convention": If a machine acts as intelligently as a human being, then it is as intelligent as a human being.
- The Dartmouth proposal: "Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
- Newell and Simon's physical symbol system hypothesis: "A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means of general intelligent action."
- Searle's strong AI hypothesis: "The appropriately programmed computer with the right inputs and outputs would thereby have a mind in exactly the same sense human beings have minds."
- Hobbes' mechanism: "Reason is nothing but reckoning."
Source: Wikipedia - Philosophy of artificial intelligence