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Philosophy With Robots
Written in collaboration with a Robot
[This essay was done in cooperation with Artificial Intelligence, everything in italics was mostly written by Chat GPT 3.5]
Since its inception philosophy has been a solely human endeavor. There has so far been no means to collaborate philosophically with non-human animals. This is due to a communicative gap with non-human animals. But with the popular emergence of Artificial Intelligence in the form of large language models humans have now built for themselves a non-human philosophical collaborator.
The possibilities for human philosophical collaboration with “machine intelligences” are quite vast. Yet, ultimately all these possibilities boil down to the fact that “machine intelligences” could potentially offer humans a differing philosophical perspective, the first translatable non-human perspectives on philosophical matters.
The replacement of human philosophers for robot philosophers might come to mind when bringing up robot philosophers. This question was asked on as follows: “Machines can already do the job of artists and they will probably become smarter than the smartest of us (…) but will a robot ever be able to replace a philosopher?” Yet, here the focus shall pertain to human philosophical collaboration with robots in the software sense.
