Category: Philosophy of AI

The new LLMs are so sophisticated: they can speak, translate, and do many other things that often impel us to attribute intelligence to them. And to ask the question of whether we might also attribute consciousness to them in the near future. This question immediately leads to the idea that a deep understanding of the…

In his famous work Minds, Brains, and Programs (1980), John Searle formulated a set of responses to the key questions that arise when discussing the ability of machines to think. Weak AI vs. Strong AI At the beginning, Searle makes an important distinction between weak and strong AI. Weak AI refers to machines as tools…

Turing created one of the most brilliant thought experiments in the history of AI: the Imitation Game. Do people think like machines—or not? Alan Turing, alongside his first critic Ludwig Wittgenstein, initiated debates that still resonate today. In this article, let us focus solely on Turing’s landmark 1950 paper. The paper opens with a simple…

“Perhaps one of the most outspoken of the pre-test critics was Turing’s close colleague and friend, Ludwig Wittgenstein.” (1, 433) As some accounts suggest, “fundamentally, he really disliked the idea that people were machines.” (1, 434) Empirical Thinking vs Philosophical Critique The central question here is whether it is possible to say that humans compute…