Philosophical Foundations

CSC 261 - Artificial Intelligence - Weinman



Answer the three of the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal and be prepared to discuss your answers in class.
  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 humankind's response?
  5. How do you define "intelligence," "thinking," and "consciousness?"