By "understanding" do you mean learning a model that can make predictions, or do you also mean the positive reinforcement that accompanies learning when your brain does it?
On Tue, Sep 7, 2021, 7:01 PM Mike Archbold <jazzbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://www.meetup.com/Northwest-Artificial-General-Intelligence-Meetup-Group/events/280242958/ > > It's common to hear claims in AI -- particularly by marketing types > and other evangelists -- that their AI/robotics based technology > "understands." They want to persuade. But what does a claim of > "understanding" actually mean beyond the smoke screen of sales > rhetoric? > > The problem is a tacit claim is often being made that the machine's > understanding is equivalent to human understanding -- at least in some > narrow task. That's what they want you to assume. But in what form is > the understanding? How deep? Does it mean that novel cases can be > understood and thus explained? At what point does the machine's > understanding fail? It seems that "understanding" definitions are > crucial: the boundaries of the machine's functionality appear to be > the boundaries of its understanding. > > The user is invariably left to draw his/her own conclusions about the > extent to which the machine's understanding resembles human > understanding -- which is itself difficult to define. > > Since this issue is at the very core of artificial general > intelligence, a two-part series is planned. > > For this event, Part I, we will be making an informal survey of the > topic with this agenda: > > 1) Philippe Delmeire has prepared some brief materials (short videos, > images, text) to get us attuned to the topic. > > 2) Mike Archbold (organizer) has prepared a community survey of > definitions of understanding, particularly with respect to how a > machine should understand. We will critique the definitions. Jim > Bromer is working on highlights of the definitions. The current > version of the survey draft can be found here -> > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kij_Ak5uSWTkxdM2vDKBbpEuXdFtJrqj/view?usp=sharing ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T2ee04a3eb9a964b5-M8d4d75b37db49af34a89c8b3 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
