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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Vincent C. Müller
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about…
Which symbol grounding problem should we try to solve?
Vincent C. Müller
Floridi and Taddeo propose a condition of "zero semantic commitment" for solutions to the grounding problem, and a solution to it. I argue briefly that their condition cannot be fu…
Pancomputationalism: Theory or metaphor?
Vincent C. Müller
The theory that all processes in the universe are computational is attractive in its promise to provide an understandable theory of everything. I want to suggest here that this pan…
Challenges for artificial cognitive systems
Antoni Gomila, Vincent C. Müller
The declared goal of this paper is to fill this gap: "... cognitive systems research needs questions or challenges that define progress. The challenges are not (yet more) predictio…
On the Possibilities of Hypercomputing Supertasks
Vincent C. Müller
This paper investigates the view that digital hypercomputing is a good reason for rejection or re-interpretation of the Church-Turing thesis. After suggestion that such re-interpre…
Symbol grounding in computational systems: A paradox of intentions
Vincent C. Müller
The paper presents a paradoxical feature of computational systems that suggests that computationalism cannot explain symbol grounding. If the mind is a digital computer, as computa…
Would you mind being watched by machines? Privacy concerns in data mining
Vincent C. Müller
Data mining is not an invasion of privacy because access to data is only by machines, not by people: this is the argument that is investigated here. The current importance of this…
Is there a future for AI without representation?
Vincent C. Müller
This paper investigates the prospects of AI without representation in general, and the proposals of Rodney Brooks in particular. What turns out to be characteristic of Brooks' prop…
Some information is too dangerous to be on the internet
Vincent C. Müller
This paper investigates a problem about freedom of information. Although freedom of information is generally considered desirable, there are a number of areas where there is substa…