Ha. I can imagine putting candidates in booths. The computer could parse the outputs and decide whether to repeat them to the audience. Bzzt. Rhetoric. Bzzt. False statements. Bzzt. Ad hominem. Bing. Extended neutral elaboration [by the computer]. Keeping people talking, that’s all fine and good. But how to shut them up with they go off the rails?
From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 11:42 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[email protected]> Cc: 'Jon Zingale' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] AI and argument Glen ‘n all, The article relates to a project I dreamed of ... helping people who disagree have a fair argument. In my notion, a team of philosophy students, masquerading as a program, directed discussants toward fair argument with a view, perhaps, ultimately, in my dreams, teaching a program to step in for the students. But keeping people talking is not the problem. Therapy programs have been good at it for years. And three-year-olds. The three year old has mastered the fact that conversation has both a procedural and a content dimension and the procedural dimension is sufficient to maintain a conversation with a sufficiently naïve adult. As soon as the adult masters the same fact, the conversation ends immediately. Why? Because! Why? Because! No child I have ever known is dumb enough to carry on such a conversation. Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of g??? ? Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 11:04 AM To: FriAM <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [FRIAM] AI and argument The computers being trained to beat you in an argument http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41010848 > At the University of Dundee we have recently even been using 2,000-year-old > theories of rhetoric as a way of spotting the structures of real-life > arguments. -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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