RE: STEM News - Artificial Intelligence
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On second thought...I’ve never thought or heard of someone distinguishing between weak and strong AI. I’ll certainly provide that difference in my next article on AI.
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The philosopher John Searle has a lot to say on strong vs weak AI, but I disagree with his conclusions from the Chinese Room and Chinese Gym thought experiments.
Thank you for that information. I'll take a look at it for the next article!
Thanks again for the response. Searle has some good points. However, it's based upon the 1980s understanding of technology. Perhaps I could make his same arguments regarding humans in that Chinese Room experiment. For instance, would he consider us as lacking intentionality if we could not control our brain's language processes that cause speech or its understanding?
I'll keep reading!
Things haven't changed that much - his Chinese Room (and Gym) are still useful descriptions of current technology even though I still disagree with his conclusions! There is a key difference with symbolic AI and non-symbolic-AI but Searle's thought experiments work with either. It might seem counter-intuitive that his thought experiments apply to non-symbolic-AI, but they do because current computers are symbolic machines - that is non-symbolic-AI is simulated on symbolic processing machines.
My big complaint about Searle is that he seems to assume that human intelligence is the gold standard for intelligence. Created in his own image indeed.