Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations

Author:   Herman Cappelen (Chair Professor of Philosophy, Chair Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong) ,  Josh Dever (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin,)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192894724


Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 April 2021
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Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations


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Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they illustrate ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved. The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (for example, creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants). If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. This ground-breaking study offers insight into how to take some first steps towards achieving Interpretable AI.

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Author:   Herman Cappelen (Chair Professor of Philosophy, Chair Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong) ,  Josh Dever (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin,)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.368kg
ISBN:  

9780192894724


ISBN 10:   0192894722
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   22 April 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1: Introduction 2: Alfred (The Dismissive Sceptic): Philosophers, Go Away! PART II: A PROPOSAL FOR HOW TO ATTRIBUTE CONTENT TO AI 3: Terminology: Aboutness, Representation, and Metasemantics 4: Our Theory: De-Anthropocentrized Externalism 5: Application: The Predicate 'High Risk' 6: Application: Names and the Mental Files Framework 7: Application: Predication and Commitment PART III 8: Four Concluding Thoughts Bibliography

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a thought-provoking overview of the resources available in the contemporary philosophy of language, and their potential application to the interpretation of AI systems. * Paul Dicken, Los Angeles Review of Books *


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Herman Cappelen is chair Professor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong. He has written and co-authored several books and works in all areas of systematic philosophy. Josh Dever is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and Professorial Fellow at the Arche Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.

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