If even artificial intelligence advocates have largely abandoned the idea that AI is ultimately algorithmic, it’s time to question a lot of related assumptions, some of which I already have.
First, the human mind, then, is clearly not algorithmic. And, it’s likely even less algorithmic than a computer.
Second, being “kludged” together by evolution, it’s most surely not a black box, like a modern software program, routine, or subroutine.
Third, running off that point, contra Dan Dennett, evolution is most assuredly not algorithmic, either, as I’ve said before.
Fourth, the Turing test, as stipulated by Alan Turing himself, was NOT about whether a machine could think, but about whether a machine could simulate thinking. In other words, in modern philosophy terminology, Turing was a functionalist, as is Dennett (on this issue, at least), even as he continues to deny it.
Anyway, read the full story linked above.
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