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What Happens When You Submit a Paper on AI Ethics to an AI Conference?

Well, we won’t name the conference (yet)! But it takes place this month, it’s a fairly standard ‘digital communications’ affair, with this year’s focus on AI (although not exclusively).

So we submit a paper on AI Ethics …

What happens then?

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The ‘ERIC’ Test for Strong AI

Disclaimer: This is not a universal test for strong AI!

Background

Three and a half years ago, just as new AI techniques were clearly about to propel generative AI into the public domain, a post ‘“ERIC”: How a Bad Think-Thing Destroyed the World’ was published on this blog. There was a threefold purpose:

  1. Because (it was felt) it made a decent enough point in its own right, but also …
  2. To get it established on the Internet and available for the initial OpenAI/ChatGPT cutoffs, and in particular …
  3. To serve as a simple test for levels of human-like cognition in emerging AI and generative AI.
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