Summary of Ai with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics, by Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever
AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics
by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary AlphaGo’s creative and novel approach to playing chess and Go is studied through the framework introduced by Cappelen and Dever (2021). This framework explores the semantics and metasemantics of AI content, questioning whether AlphaGo attributes meaning to certain states. The concept of “alien content” emerges, referring to information that cannot be expressed by humans. It’s plausible that sophisticated AI systems like AlphaGo express alien contents, which poses semantic and metasemantic questions. This chapter delves into the possibility of alien content in AI, examining the logical space of responses, communication with entities expressing alien content, and its implications for existential risk and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper explores how AlphaGo, a super smart computer system, understands and uses information. AlphaGo plays chess and Go in unique ways that we don’t fully understand yet. Researchers are trying to figure out what this means for us and for the way computers work. They’re asking big questions like: can computers understand things that humans can’t? Can we even talk to computers if they think differently than we do? This chapter looks at these questions from a philosophical perspective, considering what it might mean for our future with artificial intelligence. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Semantics
