Marcus, two questions: In what ways might Chatboxes think, and why might we think they have inner lives marked by phenomena like desire, planning, etc.?
Your argument suggests that it might be right to attribute these characteristics to Chatboxes, but it isn’t clear to me why this is so.
Great article! I would like to encourage an edit: don't call Sydney "she." This reinforces troublesome gendered norms that associate the female with that which is inhuman, nonhuman, evil, manipulative, and exists to serve men. (Examples of the films Ex Machina and Her are germane.) "Sydney" ought not be conceptualized as female but as a non-gendered, asexed abstract, disembodied, computer robot, fully "artificial." Among the things that an AI system may "learn" from the internet is the very idea that the female/feminine is subservient.
Hi Marcus. Thanks for posting this series of thoughts on this important matter. I have no interesting feedback, as my areas of expertise don't intersect well with this topic. But I do recall Fodor once writing something like 'things are always worse than they appear', when it comes to argumentation. In this case, we have argumentation on both sides: the AI stuff won't be that bad to us, it will be tremendously bad to us!
Marcus, two questions: In what ways might Chatboxes think, and why might we think they have inner lives marked by phenomena like desire, planning, etc.?
Your argument suggests that it might be right to attribute these characteristics to Chatboxes, but it isn’t clear to me why this is so.
Great article! I would like to encourage an edit: don't call Sydney "she." This reinforces troublesome gendered norms that associate the female with that which is inhuman, nonhuman, evil, manipulative, and exists to serve men. (Examples of the films Ex Machina and Her are germane.) "Sydney" ought not be conceptualized as female but as a non-gendered, asexed abstract, disembodied, computer robot, fully "artificial." Among the things that an AI system may "learn" from the internet is the very idea that the female/feminine is subservient.
Hi Marcus. Thanks for posting this series of thoughts on this important matter. I have no interesting feedback, as my areas of expertise don't intersect well with this topic. But I do recall Fodor once writing something like 'things are always worse than they appear', when it comes to argumentation. In this case, we have argumentation on both sides: the AI stuff won't be that bad to us, it will be tremendously bad to us!