Oxymoron
Artificial Intelligence? It is artifical, but is it intelligent?
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 5:22 PM
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Gypsy Scholar
Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
Friday, October 22, 2021
About Me
- Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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2 Comments:
I actually appreciate separating the notion of intelligence from the notion of consciousness. Consciousness involves subjectivity, self-awareness, inner experience, and the so-called "hard problem," but if one definition of intelligence is "problem-solving ability," then I think it's possible for something to be intelligent without necessarily being conscious. By this way of thinking, a chess program has limited intelligence related to chess but is in no way conscious. Robots programmed to navigate certain social situations are the same: intelligent but not conscious. Same for robots that drive cars or guard property.
Actually, I agree with you about intelligence and consciousness. Thanks for reminding me to rub my two ideas together if I want to spark a fire.
Jeffery Hodges
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