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Shall we play a game?

Mammas, don't let your robots grow up to be effective altruists

"Bright day. Breakfast. Return of common sense and cheerfulness."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

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/

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.