
Making AI Intelligible
Philosophical Foundations
Oxford University Press
Published on 22. April 2021
Book
Hardback
184 pages
978-0-19-289472-4 (ISBN)
Description
Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they illustrate ways in which that philosophical tradition can be improved.
The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (for example, creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants). If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. This ground-breaking study offers insight into how to take some first steps towards achieving Interpretable AI.
The questions addressed in the book are not only theoretically interesting, but the answers have pressing practical implications. Many important decisions about human life are now influenced by AI. In giving that power to AI, we presuppose that AIs can track features of the world that we care about (for example, creditworthiness, recidivism, cancer, and combatants). If AIs can share our concepts, that will go some way towards justifying this reliance on AI. This ground-breaking study offers insight into how to take some first steps towards achieving Interpretable AI.
Reviews / Votes
a thought-provoking overview of the resources available in the contemporary philosophy of language, and their potential application to the interpretation of AI systems. * Paul Dicken, Los Angeles Review of Books *More details
Edition
1
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-289472-4 (9780192894724)
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Persons
Herman Cappelen is chair Professor of Philosophy at The University of Hong Kong. He has written and co-authored several books and works in all areas of systematic philosophy.
Josh Dever is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and Professorial Fellow at the Arche Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.
Josh Dever is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and Professorial Fellow at the Arche Research Centre at the University of St Andrews.
Author
Chair Professor of PhilosophyChair Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong
Professor of PhilosophyProfessor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin,
Content
PART I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1: Introduction
2: Alfred (The Dismissive Sceptic): Philosophers, Go Away!
PART II: A PROPOSAL FOR HOW TO ATTRIBUTE CONTENT TO AI
3: Terminology: Aboutness, Representation, and Metasemantics
4: Our Theory: De-Anthropocentrized Externalism
5: Application: The Predicate 'High Risk'
6: Application: Names and the Mental Files Framework
7: Application: Predication and Commitment
PART III
8: Four Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography
1: Introduction
2: Alfred (The Dismissive Sceptic): Philosophers, Go Away!
PART II: A PROPOSAL FOR HOW TO ATTRIBUTE CONTENT TO AI
3: Terminology: Aboutness, Representation, and Metasemantics
4: Our Theory: De-Anthropocentrized Externalism
5: Application: The Predicate 'High Risk'
6: Application: Names and the Mental Files Framework
7: Application: Predication and Commitment
PART III
8: Four Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography