Philosophical Foundations

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Are you strong AI or weak AI? Briefly explain why you take this position.
  2. Do you think the brain prosthesis experiment makes sense? That is, will consciousness remain or vanish?
  3. What do you make of the Chinese room? What argument does it make? Does the argument succeed?
  4. What do you think of the technological singularity? If we assume that it will happen, what should be mankind's response?
  5. How do you define "intelligence," "thinking," and "consciousness?"