Halfway between poetry and mathematics, AIdeas brings you the concepts from philosophy and science fiction which make sense of AI - and the concepts from AI which will help you understand the philosophy of thinking.
Please believe in other minds.
Why Have There Been No Great Women Philosophers of Mind?
Since at least Mary Shelley, women have been brilliantly writing about minds and consciousness. But very few of them have been "philosophers of mind." I'm not really sure why, but I know it's philosophy's fault
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
9 Jan 2023
Frankenstein and AI with Eileen Hunt
This episode's guest is Eileen Hunt, (https://politicalscience.nd.edu/people/eileen-m-hunt/) a professor of political theory at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Artificial Life after Frankenstein (https://www.pennpress.org/9780812252743/artificial-life-after-frankenstein/).
Eileen and I discuss a number of topics related to AI and Frankenstein, including:
Mary Shelley's upbringing as the daughter of two radical thinkers
The political and literary influences on the novel
The role of parenting in the novel
The similarities between
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
7 Nov 2022
Ayer's Sociopaths
Philosophy used to be the search for wisdom, but it's become a search for certainty. And if you send an AI on a search for certainty, you'll probably create a sociopath
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
17 Oct 2022
Sidelining Sentience
If sentience means "having senses," then your floodlights that turn on when someone walks by are sentient. But if floodlights are sentient, maybe sentience isn't quite the right word.
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
3 Oct 2022
Things of Our World
What kind of a weirdo collects dumb things like barbed wire?
19 Sept 2022
Oscar Wilde's Machine Slavery
Slave actually means Slav. And the word robot is a Slavic word. It means slave.
Here's the article about American slavery that I mentioned by Nell Irvin Painter: How We Think About the Term "Enlsaved" Matters (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/14/slavery-in-america-1619-first-ships-jamestown)
12 Sept 2022
Sudowrite, an AI Companion for Fiction Writers -- James Yu
My guest today is James Yu (https://www.jamesyu.org/), cofounder of Sudowrite (https://www.sudowrite.com/), an AI companion for fiction writers. James and I discuss how neural networks process language, how AI can help writers, and the difficult path forward for using AI to help humans write without competing with them. Plus we imagine what it would be like if your favorite author turned out to be a robot!
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
5 Sept 2022
Hume's Billiard Balls
What caused you to to believe in causes?
29 Aug 2022
The Machine Stops with Joshua Glenn
On this first interview episode of AIdeas I'm joined by Joshua Glenn, editor of Radium Age (https://mitpress.mit.edu/search-result-list/?series=radium-age), a fantastic new series from MIT Press. We discuss the Radium Age, Joshua's name for the era of science fiction right before the better known Golden Age of the 1930s through the 1950s, and especially "The Machine Stops," E.M. Forster's 1909 story about a world in which automation provides humanity with everything it needs. The opening volume, containing Forster's story and Joshua's introduction, is Voices from the Radium Age (https://bookshop.org/books/voices-from-the-radium-age/9780262543378)
Josh also wrote a wonderful roundup of other stories of AI from that era, Radium Age AI (https://www.hilobrow.com/2022/08/31/radium-age-ai/)
The intro and outro music is from Domenico Gabrielli's ricercar, performed on solo cello by Debbie Davis
22 Aug 2022
Descartes' Demon
Turns out it's man
8 Aug 2022
Wittgenstein's Chess
Shall we play a game?
1 Aug 2022
Kropotkin's Drowning Child
Mammas, don't let your robots grow up to be effective altruists
25 Jul 2022
There is a Spoon
"Bright day. Breakfast. Return of common sense and cheerfulness."
-Friedrich Nietzsche
11 Jul 2022
John Searle's Chinese Room (Bits and Bytes)
This episode covers one of the most famous thought experiments about AI: John Searle's Chinese Room. And how it is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
27 Jun 2022
What Do Chatbots Know?
What do chatbots know? Words, words, words.
Here's Janelle Shane's response to the sentient chatbot pseudo-controversy: https://www.aiweirdness.com/interview-with-a-squirrel/ (https://www.aiweirdness.com/interview-with-a-squirrel/)
20 Jun 2022
Introducing AIdeas
Right now, there are people out there creating minds. And there are people who study minds – most of whom have argued that human thought is a unique, almost sacred thing that can never be replicated. These groups almost never overlap. This podcast seeks to bridge that gap.
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