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No, AI is not going to destroy the world in 10 years.

Nicholas Watkins Brown

This is the type of headline I would have expected to have to write for stoned teenagers. But according to CNN, earlier this year 42% of surveyed CEOs say that could happen. CEOs of what, you might ask? Who knows. There were certainly some tech CEOs in there, but there […]

The Fallacy of the Chinese Room

Nicholas Watkins Brown
The Fallacy of the Chinese Room

If you spend much time reading about Artificial Intelligence and philosophy of the mind, you will hear about John Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment. Written in 1980, it is an argument that however well a computer is able to imitate a mind, it cannot actually think. The argument goes something […]