3 ms·
Love'd this quote "...the trillion-dollar question: Will the approach undergirding AI today—an approach that borrows little from the mind, that’s grounded inste
by nathansnyder 13y ago
Love'd this quote "...the trillion-dollar question: Will the approach undergirding AI today—an approach that borrows little from the mind, that’s grounded instead in big data and big engineering—get us to where we want to go? How do you make a search engine that understands if you don’t know how you understand?...AI has become too much like the man who tries to get to the moon by climbing a tree: "One can report steady progress, all the way to the top of the tree.”"
- jonbaer 13y agoSurprised no mention of the Chinese Room in this article ...
- tunesmith 13y agoMe too. I wonder what Hofstadter's responses to it is. Edit: Googling, it seems that Hofstadter's response is along the lines of Haugeland. That by describing the translator as a man, we are improperly being asked to identify with him, when in the actual metaphor, the man is only an implementer in a larger system. The larger system actually does understand Chinese. So the claim is that the Chinese Room thought exercise is actually a fallacy.
- breadbox 13y agoIn my completely unhumble opinion, that's like expecting a mention of geocentrism in every article about NASA. Hofstadter provides a detailed response to the Chinese Room thought-experiement in "Le Ton Beau de Marot".