The Philosophy of Information and Artificial Intelligence w/Dr. Luciano Floridi

In episode 251 of the Parker's Pensées Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Luciano Floridi to discuss his work on the philosophy of information and the philosophy of artificial intelligence.
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0:00 - Luciano Floridi, Kierkegaard, and losing his faith
12:15 - What is Information?
17:43 - Is there information in tree rings and finger prints?
27:30 - AI isn't actually intelligent and that's the whole point
43:00 - Information and Extended Minds
1:08:13 - Simulation Hypothesis

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[@user-nb3mq3cg8k]

Information will take over future generations... So this is definitely a great discipline to start learning about it!

[@prime_time_youtube]

Information is undoubtedly one of the most captivating facets of philosophy, and I am eagerly looking forward to enjoying this podcast with Dr. Floridi. I'm not even sure how to define 'information' in the broadest sense.

[@clarabella8]

Oh I really adore Luciano Floridi! Thank you for this episode!

[@vicsteiner]

I work as a data analyst/scientist/engineer or data [whatever] business wants to call it ... But I can say Floridi's work has completely changed my view about it and made me much more aware about what I was in. Sadly not many of my peers took the time to read and think about it but I have tried. Nice podcast!

[@Elisha_the_bald_headed_prophet]

How do you define intelligence without reference to agency? What is the 'extra bit' that intelligence offers over agency? How do you construct an intelligence hierarchy among entities except by looking at their differential agency?

[@Brianb282]

Great episode!

[@Achrononmaster]

@59:00 if he wants metaphor, there is a decent one for "mind". If you ditch the primitive childish philosophies of mind vs brain, and go for a threefold or fourfold order, soul-mind-brain-spacetime then things are clearer. Mind is (metaphorically) an "emanation" of the soul (not physcial emanation), experiences of the mind are felt by the thing, the subject, the soul (who knows what that is, but for me it does not have to be physical). Spacetime and the physical laws are obviously a sort of intermediate faculty we exploit, but mind interacts with both brain/body and soul through such intermediation. The soul cannot will the mind to force the body/brain to perform physical miracles (within statistical quantum probabilistic reason!). The metaphor for all this, or one useful one, is the light and the lamp, and the thing being illuminated. Lamp ~ soul. Light ~ mind. Illumination ~ brain/body. And as far as brain is conflated with hormones and other bodily matter that's all the "extended mind" you need. It is extended brain, not extended mind. Mind, because it involves subjective qualia experienced by the soul, is obviously (imho) not all physical. But neither is it a monad, or if it is, it's composite. But try convincing a typical modern philosopher? You'll not succeed.

[@ginogarcia8730]

You're a beautiful dude, philosopher - and what a great talk

[@turquoisehexagonsun]

Got a link for your episode on informational structural realism?

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pniadaiIgLV8idE

[@bigolboomerbelly4348]

AI is no more sentient than Bayes' Theorem. Both can process priors and update them.

[@seventhalias]

You'd need to provide a metric that can measure human "sentience". Whatever you create, as long as it's objective and concrete goodluck diffretiating AI from humans. Generrally the idea of sentience is vague and people dont understand it when they say it

[@th3ist]

That's not a philosophical naturalism, that's a naturalism for philosophers. Save your naturalism for the weekend heh

[@wbiro]

He has no patience for current philosophical silliness...

[@kattenelvis1778]

He has absolutely no idea what he's talking about when it comes to AI. Wish you guys would've sticked with the philosophy of information only

[@SimonDAlfonso]

I would be interested to know some of his points on AI that make you say this.

[@NubSaibot]

AI does not exist