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It finally happened:\xa0David and Tamler welcome special guest Joshua Weisberg to the podcast to talk about Turing machines, Chinese Rooms, and AI.\xa0What does it mean\xa0for a machine to acquire intelligence? What is the proper test? How much processing power would\xa0it take?\xa0Do computers shed light on how human beings think? Why is John Searle trapped in a Chinese room, anyway? Plus, a spoiler-filled discussion (beginning at 58:20) of the recent movie\xa0Ex Machina. David tries to assert his feminist bonafides but Tamler takes Eva's side, proving once again that he is the\xa0real\xa0feminist.\xa0And we have\xa0a quick 5-minute\xa0discussion\xa0of Mr. Robot Episode 4 (beginning at 1:24) and respond to a couple of emails from\xa0the authors of the\xa0Inside Out article\xa0we discussed in our previous episode.\xa0

• Turing Test\xa0[wikipedia.org]
• Chinese Room thought experiment\xa0[wikipedia.org]
• Artificial Intelligence\xa0[wikipedia.org]
• Weisberg, J. (2009). It stands to reason: Skynet and self-preservation. In\xa0Irwin, W., Brown, R., & Decker, K. S. (Eds.)\xa0Terminator and philosophy: I'll be back, therefore I am (Vol. 13). John Wiley & Sons.
• Ex Machina [IMDB.com]

Special Guest: Josh Weisberg.

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