Questions of Free Will and Approaches to Artificial Intelligence

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Questions of Free Will and Approaches
toArtificial Intelligence
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Free Will Short Version

• Ability to make a choice of action among
  alternative possibilities.
• Will vs. Action
• Philosophy and Theology
• Types of free will
• Random change
• Making errors
• Constrained

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Free Will and AI in Pop Culture

• Ghost in the Shell
• Marathon

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Determinism The Conflict

• Given a situation at a certain time, the events
  that follow are fixed according to natural law.
• Three views of the conflict
• Deny determinism for free will
• Argue for compatibility
• Deny free will for determinism

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Free Will in Artificial Intelligence

• Where does it fit?
• Free will as the method
• Free will as the goal
• Is it necessary?

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AI Incompatibilism

• Non-internal causal accounts.
• Examples
• Reason-Explanation
• Event-Causal
• Agent-Causal
• Unconstrained

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AI Compatibilism

• Determinism as a necessary factor.
• Examples
• Breaking laws of nature
• Dennett's Free Will
• Inference-based program

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AI No Free Will

• Strong Determinism
• Strong Physicalism
• No hard problem

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Where do we go?