The Superiority of Inferiority

In his paper The Singularity: a philosophical analysis, David Chalmers outlines four general futures for the human race when an artificial super-intelligence arises, those being: extinction, isolation, inferiority and integration (Chalmers p.33). While Chalmers laments over how un-preferable the first three are in favour of integration, I believe that Chalmers is making an important leap …

John Searle’s Error: A Defense of the Turing Test

The Turing test, developed by Alan Turing, is a method which is used in the field of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to determine whether an agent is intelligent in some manner. It does so by asking the agent to perform a series of tasks, cognitive or physical, and if the tester cannot distinguish the difference between …