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Panel on AI at COSM 2022
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AI’s Lack of Understanding

How are we to view AI in an era where it increasingly seems to mimic human intelligence so well?
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We’ve been highlighting a number of interviews from last year’s COSM conference, which attracted many of the most celebrated and respected engineers, scholars, and scientists from around the country. In today’s featured clip, George Montañez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, shares his perspective on COSM 2022’s panel on artificial intelligence—areas of agreement and disagreement about the nature and future of artificial intelligence. Montañez, like Robert J. Marks, with whom he shared the panel, thinks AI is impressive and that we’ve made incredible strides in the field of computation, but maintains that these systems lack understanding and sentience. Blake Lemoine, the other panelist in the conversation, thinks AI is capable of a bit more than mere algorithmic sophistication. How are we to view AI in an era where it increasingly seems to mimic human intelligence so well?

You can watch Montañez speak with philosopher Jay Richards, as well as many other interesting lectures and panels from the 2022 COSM conference, by clicking on the video below.


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AI’s Lack of Understanding