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To be honest, it's the same in research. I'm an AI researcher, and was before the current boon. AI in research, as best as I can judge, means "Solving a proble
by CJefferson 7y ago
To be honest, it's the same in research. I'm an AI researcher, and was before the current boon.
AI in research, as best as I can judge, means "Solving a problem where there isn't a simple polynomial-time algorithm which produces a predictable answer". I once heard someone say "Problems are AI until we know how to do them".
- nicoburns 7y ago> "Problems are AI until we know how to do them". Philosophy sits in a similar niche. Physics, Chemistry, etc were all philosophical problems until we learnt better more specific ways to study them.
- pjmorris 7y agoI really like this analogy. I'm reminded that Roger Needham used to say "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." (citation: overheard from co-workers of his, also attributed to Einstein)
- goatlover 7y agoThose were metaphysical problems. There are other branches of philosophy that don't necessarily get handed off to science, like ethics and aesthetics, or existential questions and what makes life worth living.