Date of Award
2020
Degree Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Politics, MA
Program
School of Social Science, Politics, and Evaluation
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Mark Blitz
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2020 Mark Kumleben
Keywords
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Futurism, Heidegger, Superintelligence, Technology
Subject Categories
Political Science
Abstract
This paper analyzes the state of modern artificial intelligence research from a philosophical perspective, in order to argue for interdisciplinary cooperation in building an effective AI research paradigm. I assess four different aspects of AI: its ability to perceive the world through pattern recognition, its ability to act in the world through reinforcement learning, its role in technological society as predicted by Heidegger’s theory of technology, and its future development into potential superintelligence. By connecting these to an unexamined theory of the human mind underpinning AI research, I seek to show the relationship between our understanding of natural minds and of artificial intelligence, and how each may inform the other. Thus, this paper suggests that an improved understanding of natural minds may inspire AI researchers in their innovations, and that the discoveries made in AI research may in turn weigh for or against the hypotheses of philosophers.
ISBN
9798664747379
Recommended Citation
Kumleben, Mark. (2020). Modern Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Context and Future Consequences. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 622. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/622.
