An Attitude Towards an Artificial Soul? Responses to the “Nazi Chatbot”

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phin.12173" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phin.12173</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phin.12173" target="_blank" >10.1111/phin.12173</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

An Attitude Towards an Artificial Soul? Responses to the “Nazi Chatbot”

Original language description

&quot;The article discusses the case of Microsoft’s Twitter chatbot Tay that “turned into a Nazi” after less than 24 hours from its release on the Internet. The first section presents a brief recapitulation of Alan Turing’s proposal for a test for artificial intelligence and the way it influenced subsequent discussions in the philosophy of mind. In the second section, I offer a few arguments appealing for caution regarding the identification of an accomplished chatbot as a thinking being. These are motivated principally by Ludwig Wittgenstein’s discussions of mind and soul and by some Wittgensteinian philosophers’ criticisms of AI endeavours. I will try to show that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to make sense of AIs such as chatbots as thinking beings, rather independently of their technical perfection and accomplishment. In the third section, the case of the “Nazi chatbot” Tay will offer me material for some light to be shed on the peculiar (primitive) character of our interconnected concepts of thinking, soul and person and on the importance of their further ramified connections.&quot;

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Philosophical investigations

ISSN

0190-0536

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

28

Pages from-to

42-69

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029405473