Philosophical Zombies: Should We Ever Consider Artificial Intelligence to be Conscious? Xavier van Buenen · Follow 9 min read · 1 hour ago Written by Xavier van Buenen. Everyone vaguely familiar with science fiction knows of commonly touted fictional trope of artificial intelligence gaining sentience, from the Terminator franchise to Ex Machina. Not only is such a prospect regularly used by script writers, but it is equally as routine for genuine academics & intellectuals to voice their concerns over. From Google engineers such as Blake Lemoine claiming that AI has become sentient, to Alan Turing’s famous Turing Test being created as a benchmark for the capacity of human-level intelligence in an artificial form. But first, we ought to define what consciousness is. Prefacing The Problem: Definitions. For the purposes […]
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