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R&L Thread 4: Semantic Engines and the Turing Test
Reminder: Tonight (Thursday) @ 6pm in Greg 217: I will be giving a short paper entitled “What is the Internet?”
Tomorrow @ 3pm in Greg 213, Bernard Reginster “On being Looked At: Sartre on the Significance of Alienation”
Attend either talk (and say hi to me!) and I will mark you down for extra credit.
Here are the prompts for this week’s R&L thread. Respond to this post by class on Tuesday for participation credit for the week.
1) Is the mind a semantic engine? Why or why not?
2) Argue for or against any of Haugeland’s X-factor objections to the central thesis of cognitive science.
3) Can machines give a damn?
4) Is indistinguishability from human behavior enough for intelligence? Why or why not? Is the imitation game fair?
5) Is the Lady Lovelace objection fatal to the possibility of artificial intelligence?
6) Can machines learn? Are learning machines autonomous?