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Making AI Intelligible

Philosophical Foundations

Herman Cappelen author Josh Dever author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:22nd Apr '21

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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.

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 *

ISBN: 9780192894724

Dimensions: 222mm x 142mm x 16mm

Weight: 368g

184 pages