Category: Artificial Intelligence
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Programming for kids: Developing a chess program in BASIC – Part 3
Interested in chess programming? You are interested in philosophy too! What is thinking? Can AI be conscious? What does it mean to do something? Can the AI understand that it does play chess? Explore the AI related articles in Harmonia Philosophica and understand why you are already a philosopher! Programming for kids - How to…
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Improved (useless) algorithms…
Scientists being enthusiastic about improving computers to solve problems faster. (1) At the end we will make computers which will solve all problems at once. And yet. Every problem-solving method entails an important drawback we always tend to forget: that it takes the existence of the problem for granted in the first place… Imagine a…
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Ethics, Robots, Free will...
Can there be ethics without free will? The sister-site Harmonia Philosophica @ Blogger provides some insight... Check out "Philosophy Wire: Ethics without free will… No ethics at all…". Somehow making our new robots obey orders doesn't sound like a good idea. Obeying orders was the foundation of the deepest evil even known to mankind...
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AI jokes. Easy to tell…
Engineer Janelle Shane took to Twitter to lay out some of the telltale giveaways that the script was written by a person pretending to be an AI algorithm for kicks. You may recognize Shane as the person who trains neural nets to create jokes that devolve into nonsense or paint colors that almost sound real…
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Chess: random wise moves. Not possible. From a computer anyway. [OR: The futility of artificial intelligence]
In May 1997, an IBM supercomputer known as Deep Blue beat then chess world champion Garry Kasparov, who had once bragged he would never lose to a machine. Kasparov and other chess masters blamed the defeat on a single move made by the IBM machine. At the beginning of the second game the computer made…
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