First, computers lack genuine understanding. The Chinese Room Argument is a famous thought experiment by US philosopher John Searle that shows how a computer program can appear to understand Chinese stories (by responding to questions about them appropriately) without genuinely understanding anything of the interaction. Second, computers lack consciousness. An argument can be made, one I call Dancing with Pixies, that if a robot experiences a conscious sensation as it interacts with the world, then an infinitude of consciousnesses must be everywhere: in the cup of tea I am drinking, in the seat that I am sitting on. If we reject this wider state of affairs – known as panpsychism – we must reject machine consciousness. Lastly, computers lack mathematical insight. In his book The Emperors New Mind, Oxford mathematical physicist Roger Penrose argued that the way mathematicians provide many of the unassailable demonstrations to verify their mathematical assertions is fundamentally non-algorithmic and non-computational. Mark Bishop, Fear artificial stupidity, not artificial intelligence newscientist/article/dn26716-fear-artificial-stupidity-not-artificial-intelligence.html#.VJ57F14AOh
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:32:51 +0000
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