Misc.
The first recorded idea of a robot.
What is Talos?
In Discourse on the Method, Descartes developed two tests for determining whether a machine was intelligent. One was general reasoning and the other, this.
What is language?
In his article, "True Man or Tin Man," George Dunn asks us to consider: "How would you know that another human being really was a human being--and not this?
What is a machine?
In Melanie Mitchell's “The Roots of Artificial Intelligence,” Mitchell says that reasoning is symbol manipulation or following this.
What is following logical rules?
In “Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States,” McCarthy divides the consciousness a robot needs into two kinds of introspection. Early introspection and this.
What is serious introspection?
"GOFAI" stands for this.
What is "Good Old Fashioned AI"?
This experiment, Descartes argued, demonstrated that the object was the same throughout because it was "clear and distinct to his mind."
What is the wax experiment?
The Terminator may know irony, given this famous phrase.
What is: "I'll be back"?
Finish this argument:
1. If I go to the store today, then I’ll pick up some ice cream.
2. I went to the store today.
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What is:
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McCarthy believes we should not introduce this into AI systems.
What is emotion?
What philosophers sometimes call, “intentionality,” is just this.
What is meaning?
In Meditations on First Philosophy, Descartes says, “whatever I had admitted until now as most true I received either from the senses or through the senses.”
He is telling us he is against this approach.
What is empiricism?
Dunn considered what it would mean for the T-101 (the Terminator) to be a machine that behaves exactly like a human being. For Descartes, however, the distinction is not behavior, it is this.
What is the mind/soul?
1 of the 2 approaches programmers believed would get us to artificial intelligence.
What is (either) symbolic or subsymbolic?
McCarthy argued that a robot must also be able to think about its own mental state as an object. As we discussed in class, Wittgenstein had argued that this sort of model—mental states as objects—was __________.
What is misleading?
The starting point for AI as a formal field begins in the summer of 1956 at this College.
What is Dartmouth?
"He [the evil genius] will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I shall think that I am something…[Hence,] the pronouncement ‘I am, I exist’ is necessarily true every time I utter it, or conceive it in my mind.”
This has come to be known as this argument.
What is the cogito argument?
Sarah Connor identify the distinction between human beings and machines through this.
What is emotion?
This tasty logic test first given to college students before AI.
What is cannibals and missionaries?
In 6.1 of “Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States,” McCarthy offers this conjecture.
What is: adding introspection into AI should improve intelligence?
A _________ is like a digital neuron.
What is a perceptron?
In between the second and third level of doubt, Descartes ponders this discipline as a possible foundation, before dismissing it.
What is mathematics?
In “Making Robots Conscious of their Mental States,” McCarthy says, “Both understanding and awareness may be present to varying degrees in natural and artificial systems.” This is an endorsement of this mental theory.
What is functionalism?