Not Your Parents’ AI (Especially if your Parents are Functionalists)
by Tim Sommers The Theory of Mind That Says Artificial Intelligence is Possible Does your dog feel pain? Or your cat? Surely, nonhuman great apes do. Dolphins feel pain, right? What about octopuses? (That’s right, “octopuses” not “octopi.”)They seem to be surprisingly intelligent and to exhibit pain-like behavior – even though the last common ancestor…