When you think of AI ethics, what comes to mind? Some worry about AI bringing about our demise, while others focus on how it could reinforce prejudice and injustice. We can advocate for regulation and hope that fairness and accountability will shape future developments. But neither regulation nor the absence of it is a guarantee …
Some argue that advanced civilisations have not been kind to those which are less developed. If we use our history as a basis, why would an advanced AI to treat us differently? Why would it even consider the benefits of human-ai collaboration? But despite our murky past&emdash;or even our murky present&emdash;many humans have dedicated themselves …
The evolution of AI is advancing rapidly and transforming industries, which his has led to fears about job losses and, from Geoffrey Hinton the godfather of AI, warnings about AI-driven extinction. However the future doesn’t have to be so bleak! Of course, there’s plenty of fear around AI, but we shouldn’t forget about our own …
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Ted Chiang, believes that AI art isn’t real art; It is just mimicry due to the fact that the human decision making process is alien to a machine. There are also arguments that there is a lack of emotion behind a computer’s decision making process. And that’s not taking into account the copyright issues. In …
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Where do thoughts come from? Philosophers have debated it for millennia and even neuroscience doesn’t seem to have a clear answer about the origin of thought. In Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil he states that thought comes when it wants to. Studies from as early as the sixties suggested that neural activity occurs before we …
After posing various questions to ChatGPT about aspects of human philosophy and proposing the concept of human AI symbiosis similar to that of an Ian M. Banks novel, to which the AI responded with some interesting ideas. As a result, a list of topics was generated and expanded upon to create a series of articles …