Part 1
Can a machine think?
Thinking is a process, not a feeling. Why the word fits machines better than most people expect.
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First, a series on what people get wrong about thinking machines.
Five parts, in order:
Part 2
What understanding is
Understanding belongs to learners, and it comes in parts and degrees, in people and in machines.
Coming soonPart 3
Correlation, causation and chains of thought
Human causal reasoning is refined correlation. What a chain of thought changes.
Coming soonPart 4
Five kinds of “never”
Every “AI can never” claim assumes a barrier. Five kinds, and which ones still hold.
Coming soonPart 5
What humans are for
If machines think, what is left for us? Being different is not the same as having value.
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