Tag: AI

"Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located). This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in https://mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11578826227...

I'm currently in my undergraduate degree and I have been studying AI ethics under one of my professors for a while. I always have been a partisan of Searle's strong AI and I never really found the chinese room argument compelling. Personally I found that the systems argument against the chinese room to make a lot of sense. My first time reading "Minds, Brains, and Programs" I thought Searle's rebuttal was not very well structured and I found it a little logically incorrect. He mentions that if you take away the room and allow the person to internalize all the things inside the system, that he still will not have understanding--and that no part of the system can have understanding since he is the entire system. I always was confused on why he cannot have understanding, since I imagine this ...