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Descartes Discourse Method

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Rene Descartes’ “Discourse on the Method” focuses on distinguishing the human rationale, apart from animals and robots. In which he does so by explaining how neither animals, or machines lack the same mental capabilities as a human. For Descartes distinguishes the human rationale apart from non-humans, even though he does agree the two closely resemble each other because of their sense organs, and physical function (Descartes, pp22). However, it is because the mechanical lacks a sufficient aspect of the mind that makes it necessary for them to be equal with humans. Throughout Descartes “Discourse on the Method,” he argues that the significant differences between humans and the mechanical is their limited ability to respond to the world from …show more content…

A conceptual idea of an artificial intelligence that begins at first to recognize particular genres of music that interests the user, and in time forms a collective database of the user’s music. Firstly, the recorded data is collective information gathered from a variety of interests, and in time, the AI will begin to recognize patterns in the user 's interest and begin suggesting things they could enjoy. For example, the Suggestion Bot could ask the user what type of music they listen too, and from a selection of singers, genres, and the moods of the music, the Suggestion Bot would propose a broad range of music the user would be interested in. In time from tracking the user in how they browse and looks for music, it will begin to learn the particular kinds of music the user avidly listens to, and repeatedly. When the user is proposed music, and after they listen to it they must simply give the answer of yes or no. If the user selects yes to the Suggestion Bot, then all is well, and stores the yes’s in its database to stream further recommendations. However, whenever the user clicks no the Suggestion Bot it will ask why? The user must then respond from a straightforward list of reasons, and the AI will narrow down its future suggestions. Effectively the AI will have learnt more about the users taste in music. Through this process, the AI will obtain a better understanding of the user’s taste in music, because of the collective reasons of …show more content…

An example is the artificial intelligence of Eliza (Wamsley, 60) or the Chinese room (Wamsley, 79). Both AI’s recognize particular symbols of language, and respond as a human would. From the idea of these two types of AI’s let us imagine they are shrunk down, perfected, and created in to the format of a cellular device that can be used to recognize any form of language written in to its database. Given this artificial intelligence possess all rules and principles of grammar stored in its language database, it can recognize any conversation and translate the language perfectly. In short, this artificial intelligence is a master of language. However, this artificial intelligence possesses no understanding of anything, rather it follows the rules of grammar to mimic language. Furthermore, this form of ‘intelligence’ is merely one that responds to language through recognizing the rules of language rather understanding the significance of the words itself. Such as John in the Chinese room. This AI recognizes groups of particular words that fit best together, in order to respond (Wamsley 80, 81). From recognizing these symbols, it can give a response equivalent to that of a native speaker. Yet it doesn’t understand why the words are significant, rather only that

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CPT112 Assignment 1: User-Centred Analysis 1 Introduction Spotify is a commercial digital music streaming service that offers two subscription levels: Free and Premium. The Premium service removes ads, provides improved audio quality, and allows offline listening (Spotify Premium, 2016). The service gives you access to more than 30 million songs (Allsopp, 2016), which are available on a variety of devices (computers, smartphones, smart TVs, gaming consoles). Spotify Premium for iOS, version 5.1.0.1019, has been analysed in this report. Spotify is typically used to stream music on your smartphone or computer and has the following features: • Stream and download music on multiple devices • Search for music by artist, album, song, playlist, radio station • Discover new music and browse by genre or mood • See music charts • Listen to Spotify radio • Find playlists curated by Spotify and other users • Create your own playlists • Create your own library • Download songs to listen offline • Sync your library across all devices Spotify has partnered with other applications to provide additional features: • Find concerts for your favourite artists in your area (Songkick) • Share music with your friends (Facebook) • See lyrics for songs as you listen to them (Musixmatch) 2 Analysis Spotify is used by

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Effective prediction of ratings from a little range of examples is very important. Also, the reliability of the collaborative recommendation system depends on the provision of a crucial mass of users. For example, within the movie recommendation system, perhaps there can be several movies that are rated by solely few individuals and these movies would be recommended terribly rarely, even if those few users gave high ratings to them. For the user whose tastes are uncommon compared to the remainder of the population, there will not be the other users who are particularly similar, resulting in poor recommendations. 1.4 Objective:

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Let us start with John Searle’s argument, or one could say counter-argument, with what he calls “strong AI.” The most famous of his arguments; “The Chinese Room.” In which you picture yourself as a monolingual English speaker “locked in a room, and given a large batch of Chinese writing “ as well as, “ a second batch of Chinese script” and “a set of rules” in English “for correlating the second batch with the first batch.”

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According to Descartes there was a clear separation between humans and animals in regards to mind body dualism. He believed that animals were nothing more than simple machines incapable of reason and language. That they lacked a mind unlike humans, who have a sound reasoning mind and mechanical body. -Erica Trujillo 2.)

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The reading of Descartes,​ ​Discourse​ ​on​ ​Method focused on the idea of what is truth? In the reading he wants to find the actual truth where it is certain. Descartes argument is persuasive we can’t that we can’t just look back at history and believe it as “Truth” because it has been tainted history can be biased. If you look for the capital truth it will be insignificant. You cannot disregard certain things because there’s a process that leads you to multiple paths of understanding.

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Summary The article “The Unbearable Conundrum of AI Consciousness” by Cami Rosso revolves around one important question: “Will machines one day become self-aware?.” Multiple comparisons between human and artificial intelligence were introduced along the way. The topics presented in the article varied from describing a robot’s capabilities to early human development. The article also introduces psychologist-Gordon Gallup Jr. who is most well known for creating the recognition test.

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In the sixth meditation, Descartes postulates that there exists a fundamental difference in the natures of both mind and body which necessitates that they be considered as separate and distinct entities, rather than one stemming from the other or vice versa. This essay will endeavour to provide a critical objection to Descartes’ conception of the nature of mind and body and will then further commit to elucidating a suitably Cartesian-esque response to the same objection. (Descartes,1641) In the sixth meditation Descartes approaches this point of dualism between mind and matter, which would become a famous axiom in his body of philosophical work, in numerous ways. To wit Descartes postulates that he has clear and distinct perceptions of both

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