#philosophy

AIism: to believe or not to believe, that is the question

"Nobody can define consciousness, so how can anyone claim that AIs don't have it?" The argument sounds unanswerable, but it actually gets things backwards. A simple framework for deciding who has to prove what.

AI predictions? Not even wrong

An audit of seventy-six years of AI prophecy has just been published. Nineteen out of twenty-four cannot even be contradicted. What that says about prediction, and what it says about our own trade.