Free Will and Artificial Intelligence

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 167 - 181, 30.12.2018

Aziz Fevzi Zambak

Abstract

Abstract: Free will is one
of the main challenges against artificial intelligence. Free will is considered
to be one of the unique characteristics of human being which cannot be
represented in any artificial intelligent system. Free will is a special issue
in the philosophy of mind. There are two main approaches to free will; namely,
compatibilism and incompatibilism. We construct two main compatibilist
arguments in order to overcome this challenge and these arguments show that the
deterministic and computational structure of machine intelligence does not
empirically prevent artificial intelligence from possessing free will. In
addition to that, we claim that the agentive action is the only condition for
the occurrence and analysis of free will. And these occurrence and analysis
conditions can be modelled and simulated in machine intelligence. Therefore, AI
can possess the tools through which it can realize its autonomous free choices.
Simply stating, AI can have a free will.

Keywords

artificial intelligence, compatibilism, free will, determinism, computational decision

Özgür İrade ve Yapay Zeka

Abstract

Öz: Özgür istenç yapay zekaya dair en temel karşı çıkış noktalardan
birisidir. Özgür istenç insan olmanın ve insanı diğer canlılardan ayırt etmenin
biricik unsuru olarak görülmektedir. Zihin felsefesi içerisinde özel bir konu
olan özgür istenç problemine dair iki faklı yaklaşım bulunmaktadır. Bu
yaklaşımlar bağdaşırcılık ve bağdaşmazcılıktır. Bu yazıda iki farklı
bağdaşıklık uslamlaması üzerinden makinelerin belirlenimli ve berimsel
yapılarının onların özgür istence sahip olabilmesi için bir engel çıkartmadığı
gösterilmektedir. Buna ek olarak, eyleyici edimlerin özgür istencin
çözümlenmesi ve ortaya çıkabilmesi için en temel koşul olduğu iddia
edilmektedir. Bu çözümlemeler ve ortaya çıkışlar makine zekasında
modellenebilinir. Bu modelleme aynı zamanda zihin felsefesinin bir konusu
olarak özgür istenç problemine başka bir açıdan bakabilmemizi sağlayacaktır.
Sonuç olarak, yapay zeka özgür kararlar alabilecek bir yapıya kavuşabilir.

Keywords

yapay zeka, bağdaşırcılık, özgür istenç, belirlenimcilik, bilgisayımsal karar

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