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I had the fortune of being in a Stanford Chinese language class with Doug in 1976 when was writing GEB. He passed around lineprinter drafts of chapters for feed

I had the fortune of being in a Stanford Chinese language class with Doug in 1976 when was writing GEB. He passed around lineprinter drafts of chapters for feedback. I dont know if anyone anticipated the book would be a bestseller and win the Pulitzer. (Though mosts authors secretly hope for that. Doug hypothesized that knowing a language so different from English as Chinese might shed insight on how the mind works. I think he went onto other AI topics such as analogies and patterns. More recently sounds like he is looking at Chinese again from his blogs.

galaxyLogic 6y ago
I think language is the key to AI and thus Symbolic reasoning is. I wouldn't call someone intelligent who can not explain how they arrive at certain conclusions. They might be correct and useful conclusions but if you or the neural network can not communicate to others how they come to their conclusions their knowledge can not be shared with others. If it can not be shared by means of some kind of language which explains its reasoning based on logical primitives, we don't really call it intelligent, do we. We don't call a person or machine intelligent if they can't explain their reasoning. We don't really trust answers without learning the rationale behind them. And isn't this what is happening with some neural networks, they usually give more or less correct answer but sometimes, can give a totally wrong answer too. Not really trustworthy because the logic behind the answers is simply not there.
savanaly 6y ago
Where does he blog?