“The computer learned from the humans how to discriminate, and it carried out this work with breathtaking efficiency.”
Who is Cathy O'Neil
Practical, common-sense capability that fully developed adults have to be able to reason about the mental states (beliefs, desires, etc) of others and themselves
What is Theory of Mind?
The three key conditions for an algorithm to be considered a WMD are ____.
What are Opacity, Scale, Damage?
Advocated for by Rodney Brooks, this type of AI emphasizes the importance of a system being embodied in and attuned with its environment
What is behavioral AI?
different structure implies different function
“What we really need is AI that is smart enough to know when it is being used to spew falsehood.”
Who is Gary Marcus
A sensation of internal mental phenomena OR the mental sensations that we all experience individually
What is Qualia?
WMD's can be improved by being cognizant of what ____ are being embedded mathematically into an algorithm
What are values?
The topic area of prediction that Brooks and Wooldridge give different characterizations
What is AGI?
System-wide behaviors not predictable by examining the components alone
What is emergence?
“. . . extinction is more than a simple form of inhibition. It is a sophisticated form of learning. . . ”
Who is Luiz Pessoa
The stance that uses the laws of nature (physics, chemistry, etc.) to predict how a system will behave .
What is the physical stance?
WMD's tend to use ____ in replacement of variables which are hard to represent but often times lead to inaccurate results.
According to Rodney Brooks, ____ leads people to misunderstand how well a machine can do a task that a person can do.
What is performance vs. competence?
Decision-making and processing are distributed among components rather than being controlled by a single dominating entity or ruler
“. . . perhaps if we situated racist "glitches" in the larger complex of social meanings and structures, we too could approach them as a signal rather than as a distraction.”
Who is Ruha Benjamin
Plato's model of human behavior in which reasoning is pulled by two different horses, one for rational desires, the other for irrational desires.
What is the Charioteer Model?
A hypothesis of WMD's is that it is not the WMD itself which is unfair or discriminatory rather the ___ which can cause damage.
What is the Use of WMD's?
The tendency to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run
What is Amara's Law
When a conditioned stimulus (CS) no longer predicts the unconditioned stimulus to which it was paired in the past, the CS gradually stops eliciting the conditioned response.
What is Extinction Learning
“ML systems, tools that fundamentally classify, order, and predict, I argue, are practices that reincarnate Cartesian and Newtonian worldviews that seek stable, predictable, and complete understanding.”
Who is Abeba Birhane
Society prioritizes ____ whereas models prioritize ____, resulting in unfair outcomes
What is fairness and efficiency?
____ refers to the world that can be sensed by a creature
What is Merkwelt?
If a habitual action is uncalled for, it should be possible to exercise this to recalibrate it, modify it, or call it off completely.
What is Cognitive Control?