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/ 2019a APAI 001
APAI1001 - AI: foundation, philosophy and ethics
Required readings
lecture slides
Notes on intentionality
A. M. Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49: 433-460. PDF at either
https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf
or
https://academic.oup.com/mind/article/LIX/236/433/986238
Chapter 26 "Philosophical Foundations". Russell and Norvig (2010)
Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach
. Third Edition. Pearson.
Recommended Readings
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/artificial-intelligence/
Ned Block "The Mind as the Software of the Brain".
https://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/block/papers/msb.html
Intentionality - The first 3.5 paragraphs (until "directed at") of
https://www.iep.utm.edu/intentio/
Consciousness - The first 5 paragraphs of Nagel's "What is ti like to be a bat?"
http://web.archive.org/web/19990218140703/members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Nagel_Bat.html
The Chinese room argument:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TryOC83PH1g
(Optional detailed discussion:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
)
Discussion of the frame problem in section 7.7 of Russell and Norvig (2010).
Mirror test:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/mirror_test.htm
,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKs_iW0QVNY
Knowledge argument:
http://www.jimpryor.net/teaching/courses/mind/notes/mary.html
Ethics: First two sections of
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/intro_1.shtml
("what is ethics", "what use is ethics")
Biases:
https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/artificial-intelligence/tackling-bias-in-artificial-intelligence-and-in-humans
Utility and rights
https://philosophy.hku.hk/think/value/utility.php
Singularity: pages 1-6 of Chalmers "The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis"
http://consc.net/papers/singularity.pdf
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