Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations. By Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever. [Book Review]

Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
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Abstract

Linguistic outputs generated by modern machine-learning neural net AI systems seem to have the same contents—i.e., meaning, semantic value, etc.—as the corresponding human-generated utterances and texts. Building upon this essential premise, Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever's Making AI Intelligible sets for itself the task of addressing the question of how AI-generated outputs have the contents that they seem to have (henceforth, ‘the question of AI Content’). In pursuing this ambitious task, the book makes several high-level, framework observations about how a meta-semantic account of the content of AI-generated outputs should proceed.

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Nikhil Mahant
Uppsala University

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