Conversational Machinations
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F22%3A39919536" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/22:39919536 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9_16" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9_16</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9_16" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-98084-9_16</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Conversational Machinations
Original language description
In this chapter, I am discussing the issue of assigning thought to AI entities. Using the example of Sophia the Robot, I try to show that “assigning thought” to an AI entity is less a statement made based on an empirical inquiry, and more the matter of a complex attitude relying on the assigning person’s conceptual sensitivity and imagination. In that respect, most AIs fail simply because people lack the right kind of conceptual resources for relating to them as to persons “speaking out of a life”. However, in the second part I am showing that Sophia represents a case of a coordinated and intentional attempt at shifting our conceptual intuitions, by means of creating and curating conversation situations in such a way that people can relate to “her” as to a genuine person and speaker. Toward the end, I mention a few aspects of this practice that appear morally problematic in a more straightforward sense.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000425" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000425: Centre for Ethics</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Ethical Inquiries after Wittgenstein
ISBN
978-3-030-98083-2
Number of pages of the result
18
Pages from-to
255-272
Number of pages of the book
278
Publisher name
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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