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#043 Prof J. Mark Bishop - Artificial Intelligence Is Stupid and Causal Reasoning won't fix it.

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Problem With Semantics in Computer Simulations

I thought you were going to say how can I tell that anybody understands or is conscious, which is actually one of the core responses that's anticipated in the Chinese zoom argument. That is actually the obvious question as well. Presumably you think that we are conscious, because we might exist in a computer simulation. But it's an axiom of cognitive science that other minds exist. So either my dancing with pixels redook your is wrong, in which case I'll be happy when you show me where I'm going wrong. Or if I'm right, then we're not living in aComputerSimulation.

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