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| العنوان: |
Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists. |
| المؤلفون: |
Clark, Micah H., Bringsjord, Selmer |
| المصدر: |
Humanities (2076-0787); Jun2024, Vol. 13 Issue 3, p82, 22p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SOPHISTS (Greek philosophy), LOGICAL fallacies, ARTIFICIAL intelligence, DEBATE, REASONING |
| مستخلص: |
To diagnose someone's reasoning today as "sophistry" is to say that this reasoning is at once persuasive (at least to a significant degree) and logically invalid. We begin by explaining that, despite some recent scholarly arguments to the contrary, the understanding of 'sophistry' and 'sophistic' underlying such a lay diagnosis is in fact firmly in line with the hallmarks of reasoning proffered by the ancient sophists themselves. Next, we supply a rigorous but readable definition of what constitutes sophistic reasoning (=sophistry). We then discuss "artificial" sophistry: the articulation of sophistic reasoning facilitated by artificial intelligence (AI) and promulgated in our increasingly digital world. Next, we present, economically, a particular kind of artificial sophistry, one embodied by an artificial agent: the lying machine. Afterward, we respond to some anticipated objections. We end with a few speculative thoughts about the limits (or lack thereof) of artificial sophistry, and what may be a rather dark future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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