The Philosophy 2008 Blog

4. A Response to a Non-Philosophical Stimulus

Chris — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:19:27 +0000

Please Note: Even though this NPS has been released the other previous NPS’s are still live and available for comments.

What does this non-philosophical source suggest to you?

Answer the two following questions in your response:

1) What Issues about the Self does it suggest?

2) What is your position on this issue?

Please feel free to respond to someone else’s comments.

Be the first one to offer a comment or interpretation!

3. Response to Non-Philosophical Stimulus

Chris — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:10:08 +0000

Please Note: Even though this NPS has been released the other previous NPS’s are still live and available for comments.

What does this non-philosophical source suggest to you?

Answer the two following questions in your response:

1) What Issues about the Self does it suggest?

2) What is your position on this issue?

Please feel free to respond to someone else’s comments.

Be the first one to offer a comment or interpretation!

2. A Response to a Non-Philosophical Stimulus

Chris — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:39:09 +0000

Please Note: Even though this NPS has been released the other previous NPS’s are still live and available for comments.

What does this non-philosophical source suggest to you?

Answer the two following questions in your response:

1) What Issues about the Self does it suggest?

2) What is your position on this issue?

Please feel free to respond to someone else’s comments.

Be the first one to offer a comment or interpretation!

1. Response to a Non-Philosophical Stimulus

Chris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:38:10 +0000

What does this non-philosophical stimulus suggest?

Answer the two following questions in your response:

1) What Issues about the Self does it suggest?

2) What is your position on this issue?

Please feel free to respond to someone else’s comments.

Be the first one to offer a comment or interpretation!

What about the other way round?

Chris — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:49:59 +0000

Now that you have reflected on the Turing Test consider this:

“The Blurring Test turns the Turing Test on its head and challenges humans to assert their humanity rather than the computer to assert intelligence. . . . Can you claim that your “human” attributes will forever be exclusively human? . . .

The Blurring Test is about human progress: Someday it might be important to convince our computers (and each other) that we are human.”

Soon computers will be able to ask you penetraing questions. Maybe they will ask you to prove you are a human.

Go to this site and see what you think: The Blurring Test

FOr the discussion plkease go to Weblab

Write a response/comment to this challenge!

Artifical Intelligence Activity

Chris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:33:57 +0000

Go on the web and find a chatbot, ALICEBot, OliverBot, Tom or similar program that is designed to carry on a conversation. You will need to find one that you can either run on-line or download, but you need a working one and not just a description of one.

Conduct a conversation with the chatbot. Consider whether you think it could compete with a human in an “imitation game” type of Turing Test.

Activity

When you have completed your conversation answer the following questions:

1) What did you find particularly compelling or convincing about the chatbot?

2) What did you find particularly revealing of its non-human nature?

3) How would you try to improve its performance?

4) You can post excepts from the conversations as examples, but you need not post the entire conversation (try to keep it to relevant bits so the blog is not too cluttered).