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>philosophers who don't understand AI If you mean "philosophers who don't understand ML/gradient descent/linear algebra/statistics etc", I don't think many phi
by xamuel 7y ago
>philosophers who don't understand AI
If you mean "philosophers who don't understand ML/gradient descent/linear algebra/statistics etc", I don't think many philosophers are debating about that stuff.
If you mean "philosophers who don't understand artificial intelligence", that would be all of them, and everyone else too, because no-one understands artificial intelligence yet. And a lot of the people who come closest to understanding it are in philosophy departments.
- whatshisface 7y agoI more or less agree with your second point. Presently the philosophy of artificial intelligence is kind of like theology, it is molded by how people like to think more so than it is determined by reality. Sales pitches also tend to be molded by how people think. AI has that theological essence that makes people love it even if they don't understand it, and that makes it a lot easier to sell big GPU farms to companies that don't have a legitimate use.