Melanie Mitchell asks: would an Odysseus Bot trained on Homer have real beliefs?
MelMitchell1 · x · 2026-09-04
Cognitive scientist Melanie Mitchell poses a philosophical question to Raphael Millière: if you build an "Odysseus Bot" trained on Homer's writing and give it internet access to act in the world, does it actually have beliefs and desires that the fictional character Odysseus did not — since a fictional character can't act in the world?
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