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On the ethics of constructing conscious AI
Shimon Edelman
In its pragmatic turn, the new discipline of AI ethics came to be dominated by humanity's collective fear of its creatures, as reflected in an extensive and perennially popular lit…
Verbal behavior without syntactic structures: beyond Skinner and Chomsky
Shimon Edelman
What does it mean to know language? Since the Chomskian revolution, one popular answer to this question has been: to possess a generative grammar that exclusively licenses certain…
Polarize, Catalyze, Stabilize: How a minority of norm internalizers amplify group selection and punishment
Victor Vikram Odouard, Diana Smirnova, Shimon Edelman
Many mechanisms behind the evolution of cooperation, such as reciprocity, indirect reciprocity, and altruistic punishment, require group knowledge of individual actions. But what k…
Functionally Effective Conscious AI Without Suffering
Aman Agarwal, Shimon Edelman
Insofar as consciousness has a functional role in facilitating learning and behavioral control, the builders of autonomous AI systems are likely to attempt to incorporate it into t…
Learning similarity-based word sense disambiguation from sparse data
Yael Karov, Shimon Edelman
We describe a method for automatic word sense disambiguation using a text corpus and a machine-readable dictionary (MRD). The method is based on word similarity and context similar…