Faversham Stoa is a philosophy discussion group meeting on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 7.30 to 9.30pm in the Artificial Intelligence
“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is usually defined as the science of making computers do things that require intelligence when done by humans. AI has had some success in limited, or simplified, domains. However, the five decades since the inception of AI have brought only very slow progress, and early optimism concerning the attainment of human-level intelligence has given way to an appreciation of the profound difficulty of the problem.” ‡
The philosophy of artificial intelligence attempts to answer the questions:
- Can a machine act intelligently? Can it solve any problem that a person would solve by thinking?
- Can a machine have a mind, mental states and consciousness in the same sense humans do? Can it feel, have intentions, be motivated? Can it have a "life"?
- Are human intelligence and machine intelligence the same? Is the human brain essentially a computer?
