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This. Where there is no ability to summarize or paraphrase there is no comprehension. We need to stop calling fast pattern matching intelligence.
by eeks 9y ago
This. Where there is no ability to summarize or paraphrase there is no comprehension. We need to stop calling fast pattern matching intelligence.
- danielam 9y agoIf I'm being charitable, whenever I read headlines like "AI beats humans at reading comprehension", I interpret the headline as part sensational, part tongue in cheek. I am, however, surprised that to this day, people actually still believe in the idea of machine comprehension understood in the most literal sense. The whole idea of mechanizing symbol manipulation is significant precisely because it allows us to simulate computation mechanically without invoking comprehension.