Can a Machine Think? Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room Thought Experiment

Seminar

QUEST Center event

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Speaker

Nathan Aviezer, BIU

Date

30/12/2019 - 12:30Add to Calendar 2019-12-30 12:30:00 2019-12-30 12:30:00 Can a Machine Think? Artificial Intelligence and the Chinese Room Thought Experiment Can one construct a thinking machine? Is artificial intelligence on the road to producing a thinking machine? As computer programs become more and more sophisticated, will computers eventually be able to think? How far away are we from such a possibility? What does one mean by “thinking”? Will thinking computers be able to decide to injure people? To enslave mankind or maybe even to destroy mankind? What is the Chinese Room thought experiment proposed by John Searle? What are the implications of this thought experiment? What reactions has this thought experiment generated? These are some of the questions that will be discussed in this talk. Physics Auditorium, Room 301, Building 202 Department of Physics physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public

Place

Physics Auditorium, Room 301, Building 202

Abstract

Can one construct a thinking machine? Is artificial intelligence on the road to producing a thinking machine? As computer programs become more and more sophisticated, will computers eventually be able to think? How far away are we from such a possibility? What does one mean by “thinking”? Will thinking computers be able to decide to injure people? To enslave mankind or maybe even to destroy mankind? What is the Chinese Room thought experiment proposed by John Searle? What are the implications of this thought experiment? What reactions has this thought experiment generated?

These are some of the questions that will be discussed in this talk.