Abeba Birhane in Nature:
What does it mean for a machine to be intelligent, sentient or conscious? Can the idea of legal rights for machines ever be meaningfully justified? Those were once esoteric research questions; they have now moved into public debate. Such discussions usually start from the presumption that questions of human cognition, intelligence and consciousness are settled. But that’s far from the case.
In Intertwined Creatures, cognitive scientist Anthony Chemero explains how much of the buzz around the consciousness of artificial intelligence is built on, at best, reductive notions of cognition and consciousness and, at worst, a misconception of what human minds are and do.
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