Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they illustrate ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved. The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (for example, creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants). If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. This ground-breaking study offers insight into how to take some first steps towards achieving Interpretable AI.
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This innovative and accessible study illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI.
PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1: Introduction 2: Alfred (The Dismissive Sceptic): Philosophers, Go Away! PART II: A PROPOSAL FOR HOW TO ATTRIBUTE CONTENT TO AI 3: Terminology: Aboutness, Representation, and Metasemantics 4: Our Theory: De-Anthropocentrized Externalism 5: Application: The Predicate 'High Risk' 6: Application: Names and the Mental Files Framework 7: Application: Predication and Commitment PART III 8: Four Concluding Thoughts Bibliography
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a thought-provoking overview of the resources available in the contemporary philosophy of language, and their potential application to the interpretation of AI systems.
Illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI Links this thriving field of computer science and philosophy of language This accessible and innovative volume will be of interest to philosophers of language and anyone who interacts with AI systems An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
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Herman Cappelen is chair Professor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong. He has written and co-authored several books and works in all areas of systematic philosophy. Josh Dever is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and Professorial Fellow at the Arche Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.
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Illustrates how philosophy can help us understand and improve our interactions with AI Links this thriving field of computer science and philosophy of language This accessible and innovative volume will be of interest to philosophers of language and anyone who interacts with AI systems An open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
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ISBN
9780192894724
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
368 gr
Høyde
222 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
184

Biographical note

Herman Cappelen is chair Professor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong. He has written and co-authored several books and works in all areas of systematic philosophy. Josh Dever is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and Professorial Fellow at the Arche Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.