From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Future of Artificial Intelligence - Couverture rigide

Buckner, Cameron J.

 
9780197653302: From Deep Learning to Rational Machines: What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us About the Future of Artificial Intelligence
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ISBN 10 : 0197653308 ISBN 13 : 9780197653302
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2024

Synopsis

This book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions surrounding the use of deep artificial neural networks ("deep learning") to achieve artificial intelligence. Specifically, it links recent breakthroughs to classic works in empiricist philosophy of mind. In recent assessments of deep learning's potential, scientists have cited historical figures from the philosophical debate between nativism and empiricism, which concerns the origins of abstract knowledge. These empiricists were faculty psychologists; that is, they argued that the extraction of abstract knowledge from experience involves the active engagement of psychological faculties such as perception, memory, imagination, attention, and empathy. This book explains how recent deep learning breakthroughs realized some of the most ambitious ideas about these faculties from philosophers such as Aristotle, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), John Locke, David Hume, William James, and Sophie de Grouchy. It illustrates the utility of this interdisciplinary connection by showing how it can provide benefits to both philosophy and computer science: computer scientists can continue to mine the history of philosophy for ideas and aspirational targets to hit, and philosophers can see how some of the historical empiricists' most ambitious speculations can now be realized in specific computational systems.

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À propos de l?auteur

Cameron J. Buckner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Houston. He received an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ruhr-University Bochum from 2011 to 2013 and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0197653308
ISBN 13 
9780197653302
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
438
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