Phil wrote:
> YKY is advocating the post-modern viewpoint that knowledge is
> context-dependent, and true-false assignments and numeric value
> judgements are both extremely problematic. Pei is pointing out the
> commonsense, classicist position, and also the refutation of the
> post-modern tradition, that some ways of building bridges make bridges
> that stay standing, and other ways make bridges that fall down.
>
> I think that the task of "completing the Modernist project", and
> uniting the many important observations of both enlightment and
> post-modernist thinking, has fallen to AI; we MUST resolve these two
> viewpoints before we can create an AGI.
> context-dependent, and true-false assignments and numeric value
> judgements are both extremely problematic. Pei is pointing out the
> commonsense, classicist position, and also the refutation of the
> post-modern tradition, that some ways of building bridges make bridges
> that stay standing, and other ways make bridges that fall down.
>
> I think that the task of "completing the Modernist project", and
> uniting the many important observations of both enlightment and
> post-modernist thinking, has fallen to AI; we MUST resolve these two
> viewpoints before we can create an AGI.
That's an interesting perspective. I am actually very modernist in outlook: I believe AGI can be based on logic and a simple architecture, with everything else being "knowledge", and that learning is not particularly complex. I want to build a minimalist AGI capable of human-like intelligence / common sense.
Adding numerical / truth values to logic is OK if we have a rich set of rules for estimating them. The philosophical foundation of probabilistic logic may still be shaky but we can build a working AGI using eclectic rules. In this sense I'm postmodern.
The problem of context may be avoided by using an unambiguous language (for internal representation). Context-dependent words are a feature of natural language (NL) only. It arises when an NL word maps to multiple concepts in the knowledge representation. It is necessary to separate NL processing (ambiguous) with the internal KR (unambiguous).
It's a good idea to reconcile opposing viewpoints to arrive at something practical.
YKY
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