and also from https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/382304
OK, now I'll shut up :) On 9/13/21, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> wrote: > This timely article is making the rounds on social media today -- > > https://thegradient.pub/has-ai-found-a-new-foundation/ > > I thought it was interesting how many times "understand" came up with > respect to AI. > > On 9/7/21, Mike Archbold <[email protected]> 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-M07f9e5684b64f4d6c4b3d78e Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
