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The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. In particular, you can'
by curi 19y ago
The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. In particular, you can't make very good predictions about AI before you have a very good understanding of how learning and knowledge creation works.
You can tell someone doesn't know these things when they never bring it up, despite it being critical to their claims.
One way this is relevant is that people talk a lot about raw computing power. As if that was the bottleneck in humans. But the more critical issue, by far, is irrationalities. And they don't address whether AIs will have those, or not. Nor do they address how to "parent" an AI.
This particular article doesn't even mention traditions or memes.
- curi 19y ago...
- icky 19y ago> The problem with technology people making predictions about intelligence is they don't understand the most relevant field: epistemology. How do you know that you know that? ;-)
- curi 19y agoheh. that is another reason it's important to be an expert on the subject: the mainstream view is very confused. the whole knowledge is justified, true belief thing is such a mess. they've known induction doesn't work for ages, but haven't replaced it. good answers to these things, on the other hand, are largely ignored. (hint: Popper)