Hur smart är AI?: En undersökning av möjligheten av intelligenta maskiner
2019 (Swedish)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesisAlternative title
How smart is AI? : An examination of the possibility of intelligent machines (English)
Abstract [en]
The reemergence of artificial intelligence during the last 30 years has introduced severalforms of weak AI to our everyday lives, be it in our smartphones or how the weather ispredicted. Modern approaches to AI, using methods like neural networks and machinelearning, also feel confident about creating strong AI, intelligence that is human-like orsuperior to humans. In this thesis, I discover the philosophical premises of artificialintelligence, how the research program views the mind and what implications this has for theform of intelligence that is being constructed. Furthermore, I derive at several criteria thatneed to be met to qualify a system as intelligent. To cover this rather wide field, the works ofHubert Dreyfus, an early commentator on AI, and David Chalmers, one of the most widelyread philosophers of mind, are interrogated about their views on human intelligence and howsuch a theory relates to the possibility of intelligent machines.Key
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. , p. 41
Keywords [en]
Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, GOFAI, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind, Materialism, Formalism, Dualism, Computationalism, Chalmers, Dreyfus
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-162367OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-162367DiVA, id: diva2:1343344
Subject / course
Philosophy
Supervisors
Examiners
2019-08-162019-08-162019-08-16Bibliographically approved