Philosophy of AI

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Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have already begun to reshape our world, raising a host of new practical and theoretical challenges. Do Large Language Models generate and understand text as humans do? Or might contemporary AI present a new and radically alien form of intelligence? Could artificial systems ever become conscious? And how might we foresee and forestall potential negative impacts of AI, including the spread of misinformation and the replication of human biases in artificial systems? In this course, we will exploring these and related philosophical questions as we trace the rise of artificial intelligence from the days of Alan Turing to today’s cutting edge deep neural networks.