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I think there are two different questions here. 1. Is expertise reducible to pattern matching? 2. Is understanding pattern matching sufficient for building sy
by tom-thistime 7y ago
I think there are two different questions here.
1. Is expertise reducible to pattern matching?
2. Is understanding pattern matching sufficient for building systems that have expertise?
Probably many people here have seen the argument from solid state physicist Philip Anderson that #1 does not necessarily imply #2.
"The main fallacy in this kind of thinking is that the reductionist hypothesis does not by any rneans imply a
"constructionist" one: The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct
the universe", Anderson, link below.
https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_different_PWA.pdf https://www.tkm.kit.edu/downloads/TKM1_2011_more_is_differen...
- intrepidhero 7y agoI wasn't familiar and that was a really great read. Thanks for posting it. It articulates well the fundamental problem that I struggle to explain when I talk about why I don't think strong AI will be a thing for a very long time, if ever. "The constructionist hypothesis breaks down when confronted with the twin difficulties of scale and complexity."