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The late Alan Turing has been joined by Stephen Hawking and others in claiming that computers could overtake humanity. Will machines soon match their makers? Philosopher David Chalmers, computer scientist Kate Devlin join Closure theorist Hilary Lawson to consider the threat of intelligent machines.
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David Chalmers is an Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist specializing in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. He is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University.
Kate Devlin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Kate’s research is in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), investigating how people interact with and react to technology in order to understand how emerging and future technologies will affect us and the society in which we live.
Hilary Lawson is an English post-realist philosopher. Known for his theory of closure, he is director of the Institute of Art and Ideas and founder of the philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn.
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Gee, Chalmers' got fat. Must be all that anti-realist philosophy weighing him down and make him eat those doughnuts.
So, Hilary's argument is – 50 years have passed and machine consciousness is not here – Fail. WTF. And for god's sake, don't use the words closure or holding without defining them!
good exposition by David. Wish he had been sober.
Lawson should stick to philosophy. In trying to answer the main question, this discussion seems to miss the mark – the proof is in the pudding. The singularity is coming soon, and we are already so much closer than when these 3 discussed it just a year or two ago. Imagine Moore's Law applied to AI, in a way that Devlin described, with AI machines developing better AI machines.
Perhaps the question should have been – "can machines replace humans in every job category currently done by humans, thereby putting us all out of work and at the mercy of those who own the machines?"
Regarding the Hard Problem of consciousness, for which Prof Chalmers is known, this discussion doesn't address that. However, concerning consciousness, it's been suggested elsewhere that perhaps consciousness is all there is, and nothing is real (nothing to get hung about, though, eh?).
replication of all the separate intelligence functions of the brain then coordinate them in some way.. maybe it will work maybe not. The brain and intelligence evolved not in some linear way rather with feedback and dependencies between higher and lower levels of consciousness out of which our current level of consciousness emerged. The largest setback to existing consciously in the world is the computer know where it is in space or in the world relative to other things… We are well aware of where we end and where the rest of the world begins… how would a computer do this?
Chalmers is drunk again
So the Robot that the Russians are allegedly sending up in space is total bunkum.
Is Chalmer's a Materialist?