Questions tagged [philosophy-of-computer-science]
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Infinite regresses and AI: are they compatible?
I haven't been thinking about this very long, but when I encounter an infinite regress, I recognize it as a problem and then look for ways around that (avoid, make it virtuous, I don't know). I may ...
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Is maths and computation anything other than addition? [closed]
This question may have been best answered on the mathematics site or the computer science site but however I think there is an argument to it being a philosophical question aswell.
Quantity is a ...
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Is there any major benefit to using NAND in infinitary logic?
In infinitary logic (there's an SEP entry about it), you can have infinitely long conjunctions and disjunctions. But imagine that different logics are like different video games. Usually, to my ...
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Who was the first philosopher to describe what we now call artificial intelligence?
Who was the first philosopher (e.g., Greek or pre-Socratic) to define or describe what we now call artificial intelligence?
In your answer, first discusses
the natural vs. artificial distinction (e.g....
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What do humans do uniquely, that computers apparently will not be able to?
The question is often brought of what computers will be able to do as well or better than humans. We could ask a more definitive question: what do humans do that we never expect computers to do, no ...
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Can LLMs have intention?
In many movies, you have seen an AI robot moving here and there, doing this and that with an intention. Is it possible that a generative AI-like language model (e.g., ChatGPT) could ever do that?
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Does P=NP affect evolution?
One way to model evolution is to say here are a bunch of algorithms which have a particular probability distribution as a subject to thermodynamics in the physical world as processes. Then we allow ...
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Would being in a simulation explain why we have regularities?
Would being in a simulation explain why reality exhibits regularities or would that just bring the question back a notch and ask how that simulation came about?
We live in a world that seems to be ...
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Why is hypercomputation contested?
Clearly, I do not have a solid grasp on a number of the following topics, and I would like to. I’ll try to explain my reasoning clearly, so anyone could point out any of my misunderstandings.
The ...
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Can Panpsychism be reconsidered through computer science? [closed]
This is a topic that dates at least as far as Descartes. It may be new in natural science. The term may be a neologism, but not the concept.
Let's assume that everything from the subatomic particle ...
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Does or could ChatGPT understand text? [closed]
The following argument concludes that the common understanding of ChatGPT (trained on text, receives online users' text questions, etc.) is not supported by the science. What criticisms are there of ...
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Mathematically, what delimits “information theory”?
I can expand on what I mean in a little bit, but it seems to me that as you go deep into various foundational aspects of math (or more generally, pattern, structure, reason, information, meaning), you ...
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Does a program imply a programmer? [closed]
I propose there are 2 methods with which we could replicate consciousness.
A physical replication of the brain where consciousness would emerge from a physical replication of a brains neural network.
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Is it possible to simulate a world within a world?
I would argue that it is not possible to create a simulation of a world within a world.
I can only imagine that a simulation of our world could be done within a computer?
A computer has a finite ...
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Could general-AI language generation be a test for sentience, sapience, or consciousness?
One of the oft-cited examples of how to test if Artificial Intelligence (AI) is intelligent (often expanded to sentient) is the Turing test. Simply, an AI or machine passes the Turing test if it can ...
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