Human Cognition and Artificial Intelligence: Searching for the fundamental differences of meaning in the boundaries of metaphysics
4th National Conference on Cognitive Science, June 2013, Athens, Greece. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17433.67681
While trying to detect common principles and fundamental differences between Human Cognition (HC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), it is often expedient to look back into the philosophical foundations to face questions that we tend to casually bypass. Such questions, mainly of an epistemological and ontological character, are related to the “nature” of knowledge and signification and more specifically to the way the world has -or can acquire- meaning for cognitive beings.
Artificial Intelligence: Life in the second half of the chessboard
Life in the second half of the chessboard is expected to be exciting and scary at the same time. New challenges and opportunities will soon give prominence to new masters of the game, new services, new products, new lifestyles –and we will all adapt and embrace these developments, making them an integral part of our daily lives, just about as we did in the past with cars, mobile phones and the internet.
What is it like to be a machine?
The question "What is it like to be a machine?" refers to the subjective experience of a cognitive agent, that happens to be a thinking machine, consisting of microchips, transistors, cables, sensors etc. At first we may assume that the subjective experience of being a machine will be different from the subjective experience of being human, therefore a human cannot "experience" the world as a machine, neither a machine can "experience" the world as a human.
Who's to blame when HAL kills again?
Most of us met HAL 9000 as the lead character in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001, A Space Odyssey", which was based on Arthur Clarke's screenplay and short stories. HAL, a Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer –a sophisticated form of Artificial Intelligence (AI)– decides to kill the spaceship crew and gain control of the spaceship in which it was stationed, in order to ensure the success of its mission, when it realized it was under threat.
The Algorithm of the Digital Humanism
According to Sartre, people experience a constant state of existential anxiety, because being "condemned" to freely define our own purpose, at every moment of our lives we must make choices that ultimately determine who we are.
Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence
Dasein Lab Workshop, 2010
An introduction to Heideggerian Artificial Intelligence on the occasion of the translation in Greek of the proposal by Hubert Dreyfus (2007): “Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian”.
Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making it More Heideggerian - by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosophical Psychology 20 (2):247 – 268 (2007) - Part 1
Translation in Greek by Alkis Gounaris
Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making it More Heideggerian - by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosophical Psychology 20 (2):247 – 268 (2007) - Part 2
Translation in Greek by Alkis Gounaris
Why Heideggerian AI Failed and How Fixing It Would Require Making it More Heideggerian - by Hubert L. Dreyfus, Philosophical Psychology 20 (2):247 – 268 (2007) - Part 3
Translation in Greek by Alkis Gounaris
