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3Church’s Thesis and Philosophy of MindIn Adam Olszewski, Jan Wolenski & Robert Janusz (eds.), Church's Thesis After 70 Years, Ontos Verlag. pp. 9-23. 2006.
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16AI’s Winograd Moment; or: How Should We Teach Machines Common Sense? Guidance from Cognitive ScienceIn Herta Nagl-Docekal & Waldemar Zacharasiewicz (eds.), Artificial Intelligence and Human Enhancement: Affirmative and Critical Approaches in the Humanities, De Gruyter. pp. 127-150. 2022.
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572Bigger Isn’t Better: The Ethical and Scientific Vices of Extra-Large Datasets in Language ModelsWebSci '21: Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM Web Science Conference (Companion Volume). 2021.The use of language models in Web applications and other areas of computing and business have grown significantly over the last five years. One reason for this growth is the improvement in performance of language models on a number of benchmarks — but a side effect of these advances has been the adoption of a “bigger is always better” paradigm when it comes to the size of training, testing, and challenge datasets. Drawing on previous criticisms of this paradigm as applied to large training datas…Read more
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3Review of Rationality in Action, by John R. Searle (review)Essays in Philosophy 5 (2): 487-490. 2004.
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183Turing’s Responses to Two ObjectionsMinds and Machines 18 (2): 147-167. 2008.In this paper I argue that Turing’s responses to the mathematical objection are straightforward, despite recent claims to the contrary. I then go on to show that by understanding the importance of learning machines for Turing as related not to the mathematical objection, but to Lady Lovelace’s objection, we can better understand Turing’s response to Lady Lovelace’s objection. Finally, I argue that by understanding Turing’s responses to these objections more clearly, we discover a hitherto unreco…Read more
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1059Descartes' influence on TuringStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 42 (4): 544-551. 2011.
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65Book review: "Supersizing the mind" by Andy Clark (review)International Journal of Machine Consciousness 1 (2): 299-304. 2009.
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764Philosophy of Mind Is (in Part) Philosophy of Computer ScienceMinds and Machines 21 (2): 203-219. 2011.In this paper I argue that whether or not a computer can be built that passes the Turing test is a central question in the philosophy of mind. Then I show that the possibility of building such a computer depends on open questions in the philosophy of computer science: the physical Church-Turing thesis and the extended Church-Turing thesis. I use the link between the issues identified in philosophy of mind and philosophy of computer science to respond to a prominent argument against the possibili…Read more
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Chapter Twelve Growing Minds, Computability, and the Potentially Infinite Darren AbramsonIn Soraj Hongladarom (ed.), Computing and Philosophy in Asia, Cambridge Scholars Press. pp. 179. 2007.