Derek Rich
Phil-1000
4/26//2014
Questioning AI Free Will
Could an A.I. practice Free Will? I’m going to try and explore if an AI could understand soft-determinism, hard determinism, or simple indeterminism. Would it be able make self-deterministic decisions that the AI has made? Could an AI have desires or be wanton by it’s programming? There is no doubt an AI could solve the most advanced puzzles we have created but the question here is could it think and act of it’s own free will. We as the human race have spent generations upon generations figuring out Free Will, so could all this knowledge we have acquired about Free Will, could an AI learn it as well. My counter-argument will be that eventually AI could have rudimentary Free Will. This
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The first law is to protect ourselves, even if the robot isn’t intentionally harming us, if in any case the robot malfunctions. The second law is to obey an order given by a human. Now this seems that the artificial intelligent robot would be wanton in their behavior. They have to obey the order, thus no free will. Then there is the third law, to protect itself as long as the other two laws are not conflicting. Which brings up the excellent point that if a human orders a robot to die, then in actuality the robot is wanton. While an artificially intelligent robot would analyze, reflect, and contemplate if these rules apply to it. Which means robots are meant to serve while artificially intelligent robots are meant for philosophical debates, learning, and a whole mountain of different …show more content…
Which is a gross misrepresentation of how far we have gotten in technology. IBM’s Watson is a great figurehead on Artificially Intelligent robots. Watson, if you don’t know is a computer that learns and makes choices, kind of like diet Free Will (not quite Free Will yet), so far it’s only been used in Jeopardy and conventions showing problem solving robots. The counter-argument is weak because robots and technology have advanced during our lifetime so it’s easy to see that progression is a natural think in technology and
The simplest description of free will, as conceived by such philosophers as David Hume, is simply that free will is, “the ability to choose an action to satisfy a desire” (Hoefer). However, modern philosophers have mostly rejected this definition because it is known that nonhuman animals also act on their wants and needs but lack the intelligence to consider their actions as free choices. A more complex assessment of free will, better differentiating between humans and animals, is that the ability of humans to choose actions flows from the relationship between their animal desires and intellects. This means that people's actions are free when they have intelligently determined the best decision to make in any situation, even if their choices conflict with what they truly want, or their base animal desires. By conquering their basic instincts to make rational, informed decisions, humans have exercised free will, which animals cannot do
In Philosophy, one of the most controversial discussions is whether or not humans actually have free will to make the choices and do the actions that they desire to complete. In order to understand the argument, defining key terms like free will, deliberation, and determinism is vital. One Philosopher, Daniel Dennett, explores the topic and issues of free will and determinism in his 1984 book Elbow Room. I disagree with Dennett view and I believe that humans do not have free will. We are controlled by several things, like our evolutionary past and genetics, or environment, and they all play into determinism. Similarly to how humans do not have free will, robots as well do not have free will, partially due to the nature in which they are created.
Throughout time people have tried to prove and disprove God, all part of free will. Free will allows people to believe based on faith but can allow people to demand proof. It also allows people to decide who they are, their identity. It’s what gives people the opportunity to build relationships with people. Some relationships can cause problems with God including going against what He tells people not to do, and betraying family. Lastly, it shapes civilization to one day become a great city or it fall and be destroyed. God gave people the free will to worship Him freely instead of being forced, but being able to choose a path to follow can lead to destruction.
Free will is a problem that has been occupying the minds of many philosophers. The classical debate is whether we have free will or we are determined and therefore free will in an illusion. There are many views that philosophers have brought to the table in order to tackle this debate. Some of which are determinism, libertarianism, and compatibilism. Harry Frankfurt’s general intake on the debate is that free will is not about having the ability to do otherwise. Instead, free will is about having the ability to make judgements about our desires. The purpose of this paper is to expound and asses Harry Frankfurt’s semi-compatibilist view, his concept of a person, and how it relates to the freedom of the will.
Since the foundation of philosophy, every philosopher has had some opinion on free will in some sense, from Aristotle to Kant. Free will is defined as the agent's action to do something unimpeded, with many other factors going into it Many philosophers ask the question: Do humans really have free will? Or is consciousness a myth and we have no real choice at all? Free will has many components and is fundamental in our day to day lives and it’s time to see if it is really there or not.
... of decision-making (Libet, 1985; Dennett, 2006). Mele does concede that the idea of free will is not completely free from threat; if research ever makes it possible to analyze brain activity in order to always predict decision outcomes before an individual becomes aware of those decisions, it would raise serious doubt for any possible concept of free will.
Some would say the attempt to make a robot is an attempt to 'play god' and to recreate man. Others would argue that robots might become so intelligent that they would take over and replace humans. There is no better example of this than the movie Terminator, which begins with a world ruled by machines who are trying to kill the remaining human population. The actual field of robotics however, has produced many products which we take for granted. The clock is a household item that was developed in the beginning stages of machine ...
As our research into science and technology ever increases its seems inevitable that in the near future Artificial Intelligent machines will exist and become part of our everyday life such as we see with modern computers today.
When most people think of artificial intelligence they might think of a scene from I, Robot or from 2001: A Space Odyssey. They might think of robots that highly resemble humans start a revolution against humanity and suddenly, because of man’s creation, man is no longer the pinnacle of earth’s hierarchy of creatures. For this reason, it might scare people when I say that we already utilize artificial intelligence in every day society. While it might not be robots fighting to win their freedom to live, or a defense system that decides humanity is the greatest threat to the world, artificial intelligence already plays a big role in how business is conducted today.
I want to argue that there is indeed free will. In order to defend the position that free will means that human beings can cause some of what they do on their own; in other words, what they do is not explainable solely by references to factors that have influenced them. My thesis then, is that human beings are able to cause their own actions and they are therefore responsible for what they do. In a basic sense we are all original actors capable of making moves in the world. We are initiators of our own behavior.
Our minds have created many remarkable things, however the best invention we ever created is the computer. The computer has helped us in many ways by saving time, giving accurate and precise results, also in many other things. but that does not mean that we should rely on the computer to do everything we can work with the computer to help us improve and at the same time improve the computer too. A lot of people believe that robots will behave like humans someday and will be walking on the earth just like us. There should be a limit for everything so that our world would remain peaceful and stable. At the end, we control the computers and they should not control us.
I don’t think there is any reason for these robots to have every ability that a human does. There is no way they are going to have the intelligence a human does. Artificial Intelligence is just going to bring more harm into our communities. We can’t trust the robots doing the “everyday” human activities, they are going to lead to unemployment, and will lead to laziness causing more obesity.
Human nature is about free will, and using one’s free will for good acts. We know free will exists because living things are being changed day after day. Any act, from walking across a room to deciding to eat a meal, is because of free will. We are given free will and with that, the ability to create our own, unique path in life. Free will provides human beings with freedom, judgement, and responsibility. Every human being is born with the capability to live a good, just life. However it is just as possible to live an immoral life led by bad choices. This notion of endless options in life is made possible by God’s gift of free will. No two human lives will ever be the same, because no two people will ever have the exact same experiences their entire lives. Every human being is shaped by experience, which comes from our actions, which are results of free will.
Yes, very much so. Often, one will hear the example of our fight or flight instincts or of when a person places their hand on oven burner and automatically removes their hand without conscious thought because of a reaction from our nervous systems. Every brain is hardwired with basic survival instinct such as these, however that does not take away free will. Critics of free will try to explain it away with science, saying that our actions result only from the movement of atoms and molecules within our bodies. They talk of the “Illusion of free will”, that as human beings, we have no say in our decisions (Harris). In my opinion that reduces humanity into what can only be described as a series of programmable
To conclude, robots could be the backbone of the society that will result in a technological revolution. Because of robots various characteristics that do not experience fear, nor exhaustion and they are precisely programmed, which make them able to help in case of need, housework, and factories production. Society needs to put the issue of robots into consideration to satisfy any shortage exists in the world.