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Has it already done so?
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This debate explores the relationship between free will and gender identity, and the implications for individual and social well-being. It presents two opposing arguments: one that views free will and determinism as compatible, and one that views them as incompatible. The debate examines the definitions, assumptions, evidence, and counterarguments of each position, and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. The debate aims to provide a nuanced and balanced perspective on the complex and controversial issues of free will and gender identity.
I hope this to be entertaining. Feel free to criticize either position for a more elaborate response.
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I'm a huge fan of A.I.. My current hobby includes generating A.I. art and printing them on canvas to decorate my man-cave.
I'm wondering if anyone would be interested in a visual debate (No words, only topic specific art). Every round has a specific topic and each person has to generate AI art to post. The best AI artist wins.
Any takers?
Here is a link to a few of my pictures: https://twitter.com/UsBurning/status/1557510043846819844?s=20&t=ftGGg1_2_f4prgapMIBpTw
Here is the AI engine: https://www.midjourney.com/app/
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Strong AI is artificial intelligence that can think like a person can, they have free will, and can plan out their own means. (no piece of strong AI have been created yet)
I will assert that this cannot exist, because of the following arguments:
- The Chinese Room. Imagine an English speaking human-being who knows noChinese is put in a room and asked to simulate theexecution of a computer program operating on Chinesecharacters which he/she does not understand. Imagine the program the person is executing is an AIprogram which is receiving natural language stories andquestions in Chinese and responds appropriately withwritten Chinese sentences.
The claim is that even if reasonable natural languageresponses are being generated that are indistinguishablefrom ones a native Chinese speaker would generate, there is no “understanding” since only meaningless symbols arebeing manipulated. the human seems to understand Chinese, however, they do not, and the same is true of AI.
- Mary's Room. imagine Mary is an expert on color, and she can describe the process of the human eye seeing color. however, Mary works in a completely black and white room, and she has never seen color. one day, a red apple appears on her computer screen, Mary has seen color for the first time. the question is: does she learn something new when she sees the red apple? is the answer is yes, she does, then there is more to color then what we can program into a computer, and color is a qualia (or subjective experience) in which humans have, that cannot be put into a computer. more examples of qualia are joy, or anger, because we cannot describe these experiences to someone who has not felt them, therefore, we cannot program them into a computer, and we cannot have true strong AI.
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