Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 93 of 171

AI as building robots with economic theory

Whether or not the field of artificial intelligence deals with this foundational issue could be decisive for its project of building superintelligent machines. It turns on whether computations are ontologically objective versus epistemically objective. If computations are only epistemically objective, the project of artificial intelligence can be thought of as an attempt to build a conscious robot using the theories of economics rather than the laws of physics.

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