2.2 - Evaluating Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Policy
🧠 Think:
- How can we, as fellow humans, assess whether or not a non-human “intelligence” is actually… intelligent? What kind of guidelines and rules of thumb should we form? What makes something an autonomous system, an intelligent system, a general intelligence system, or even a superintelligence?
📖 Read:
- Searle, “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (aka “The Chinese Room” argument)
- In the linked version of this article, you only need focus on the core article (pgs 417-424); don’t worry about the additional commentary unless interested
📺 Watch:
- “Artificial Intelligence & Personhood”, Crash Course Philosophy #23
🎧 Listen:
- Complexity podcast, Season 2, Episode 5: “How do we assess intelligence?”
🌐 Browse:
📚 Additional Resources:
- Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” (aka “The Turing Test”)
- “The Turing Test”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- “The Chinese Room Argument”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Boden, Escaping from the Chinese Room
- Dennett, The Intentional Strategy and Why it Works
📝 Submit:
- Discussion question to course chat
TipTip
- 📖 Read, 🎧 Listen, and/or 📺 Watch items are required content for the day and should be completed before class.
- 🌐 Browse items should be skimmed but do not need deep reading unless you want to.
- 📚 Additional Resources are optional references for debates, final projects, and future use.