Philosophy of artificial intelligence

test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human

Transhumanism is a philosophical movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies to enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being. Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy and religion. Some critics argue that transhumanism amounts to little more than a "rebranding" of eugenics.

hypothetic future event in which artificial intelligence iteratively redesigns itself to rapidly become more intelligent, causing technological and social change beyond prediction

Italian philosopher

thought experiment arguing that a computer cannot exhibit "understanding"

hypothesis that human replicas which appear almost like real human beings elicit revulsion

confident unjustified claim by an AI

ethics of technology specific to robots and other artificially intelligent beings

Czech philosopher and photographer

area of philosophical inquiry

branch of philosophy

LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a family of conversational large language models developed by Google. Originally developed and introduced as Meena in 2020, the first-generation LaMDA was announced during the 2021 Google I/O keynote, while the second generation was announced the following year.

observation that perception requires more computation than reasoning

American philosopher (1929–2017)

Dataism is a term that has been used to describe the mindset or philosophy created by the emerging significance of big data. It was first used by David Brooks in The New York Times in 2013. The term has been expanded to describe what historian Yuval Noah Harari, in his book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow from 2015, calls an emerging ideology or even a new form of religion, in which "information flow" is the "supreme value". In art, the term was used by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi to refer to an artist movement that uses data as its primary source of inspiration.

thumb|A 'second wave' connectionist (ANN) model with a hidden layer Connectionism is an approach to the study of human mental processes and cognition that utilizes mathematical models known as connectionist networks or artificial neural networks.

hypothetical artificial general intelligence that would have a positive effect on humanity

systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, such as privileging one arbitrary group of users over others

alignment of AI systems towards human goals, preferences and ethical principles

1956 AI workshop

interdisciplinary theory

AI thought experiment

theory proposing that the mind works similar to a computer

1950 article by Alan Turing on artificial intelligence that introduced the Turing test

metaphor to describe the theory that large language models, though able to generate plausible language, do not understand the meaning of the language they process

television series originally broadcast from 1995 to 2002

ethical problems related to robots

Singularitarianism is a movement defined by the belief that a technological singularity—the creation of superintelligence—will likely happen in the medium future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the singularity benefits humans.

system

part of the ethics of artificial intelligence

multidisciplinary endeavour

philosophical and social movement advocating for a pro-technology stance that seeks to maximize the probability of a technocapital singularity

risks of astronomical suffering

alternate term for or form of artificial intelligence

essay by Roger Penrose

trait of an algorithm, whose results are independent of given variables, e.g. gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability

hypothetical isolated computer hardware system where a possibly dangerous artificial intelligence is kept constrained in a virtual prison and not allowed to manipulate events in the external world

collection of philosophical essays by a fictional supercomputer, written by Stanisław Lem

thought experiment

Broadening of moral considerations

stupidity exhibited by an artificial intelligence

held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in January 2017

artificial simulation of human imagination

TESCREAL is a neologism proposed by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres. An acronym, it stands for Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, (modern) Cosmism, Rationalists (the internet community, not to be confused with other uses of the term), Effective Altruism, and Longtermism. Gebru and Torres argue that these ideologies should be treated as an "interconnected and overlapping" group with shared origins. They claim these constitute a movement that allows its proponents to use the threat of human extinction to justify expensive or detrimental projects and