@futurebird @marshray @trochee
I do wish philosophy would get off its dead ass and provide us with a cogent vocabulary for what's going on in the machines.
The closest to a competent philosopher is WVO Quine and his school. Google "gavagai" and the indeterminacy of translation.
There are at least a dozen ridiculous attempts to Explain AI and they're all worthless. Our understanding of reality is always relative to a background theory