CIS 197 Computers in Society

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CIS 197Computers in Society
Philosophy Week!

• Professor John Peterson

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Drew McDermott AI

• What is Deep Blue?
• Who was the first grandmaster to be defeated by a
  computer?
• Did people believe that the computer win at chess
  meant that computers were now intelligent?
• Does Dr. McDermott believe the computer is
  intelligent? Why?
• What does he believe is essential to
  intelligence?

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Drew McDermott AI

• Does Deep Blue understand chess in the sense of
  a grandmaster?
• Does he believe you decompose intelligence?
• Does the human brain work differently than a
  computer?
• Do we understand how chess players think?
• Why does he believe we refuse to judge Deep Blue
  as intelligent?

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Drew McDermott AI

• What is a Hidden Markov Model?
• Are we aware how our brains work?
• Does he expect a breakthrough in AI in which we
  can teach computers to think?
• How does he view the field of AI?
• Are Deep Blues computations understandable to
  chess masters?
• What is the difference between seeming alive and
  seeming intelligent?

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Dennett and AI

• When was this written?
• How does Dennett separate Chess from other games?
• What happened following the 1997 chess match?
• Do people seem bothered that machines can now
  beat people at chess?
• How does he believe that computer chess differs
  from human chess?

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Dennett and AI

• Why does he believe that offering / accepting a
  draw is a more human part of the game?
• Do people like to be considered protein
  machines?
• What is insight?
• How do human chess players train for their
  matches?
• What did Bobby Fisher propose to avoid this?

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Dennett and AI

• Does Deep Blue prune its search space?
• What did the NYTimes feel makes us uniquely
  human?
• What is it that Dennett says that we cling to?