Class 13

Question 1

weak ai

Answer 1

when machines act as if they were intelligent

Question 2

strong ai

Answer 2

when machines actually consciously think and don’t just simulate it

Question 3

qualification problem

Answer 3

refers to the difficulty of capturing every contingency of appropriate behavior in a set of necessary and sufficient logical rules

Question 4

embodied cognition

Answer 4

approach that claims that it make no sense to consider the brain separately – cognition takes place within a body which is embedded in an environment

Question 5

chinese room argument

Answer 5

human who only understands English in room with bunch of rule books, given paper with Chinese symbols, human uses rule books to translate a response in Chinese, outside observer might imagine person in the room understands Chinese

Question 6

consciousness

Answer 6

awareness of environment and of self, and the subjective experience of living

Question 7

qualia

Answer 7

term in latin for intrinsic nature of experiences

Question 8

deidentification

Answer 8

used to strip personal data, doesn’t always work

Question 9

secure aggregation

Answer 9

needed to preserve privacy for federated learning, basic idea = central server should not be storing identifiable information from a user’s database

Question 10

fairness criteria

Answer 10

1. individual fairness (treated fair regardless of class)
2. group fairness (2 classes treated similarly)
3. fairness through unawareness (remove class distinctions)
4. equal outcome
5. equal opportunity
6. equal impact

Question 11

explainable ai

Answer 11

an ai/ml system that explains itself to you

Question 12

technological unemployment

Answer 12

coined by John Keynes – net effect of automation seems to be in eliminating tasks rather than jobs

Question 13

business process automation

Answer 13

combination of text documents and structured data to make business decisions and improve workflow

Question 14

robopocalypse

Answer 14

book that portrays out of control AI – written by Daniel Wilson

Question 15

software engineering

Answer 15

field for producing reliable software

Question 16

low impact

Answer 16

robot system that is programmed to “first do no harm”

Question 17

tragedy of the commons

Answer 17

externalities result in the exploitation of shared resources

Question 18

imitation learning

Answer 18

robots learning through humans, can cause them to repeat human mistakes

Question 19

ultraintelligent machine

Answer 19

fear that humans will invent something that will be our last invention

Question 20

thinkism

Answer 20

coined by Kevin Kelly – describes an overemphasis on pure intelligence