Tag: Winograd Schema (and common sense)

Evil robot, glowing lights, shiny metalic parts

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News
Date
November 19, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

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Common sense and AI, Computers and irrationality, Featured, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks, Wesley J. Smith, Winograd Schema (and common sense)}

So, Can a Computer Really Be Irrational?

_{Computer prof Robert J. Marks tells Wesley J. Smith: No, and here’s why … from his experience} _{News

November 19, 2022

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

In a recent episode at Mind Matters News podcasting, “Can a computer be a person?” (November 10, 2022), Robert J. Marks and Wesley J. Smith discussed that in connection with Marks’s new book, Non-Computable You: https://mindmatters.ai/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/11/Mind-Matters-212-Robert-Marks.mp3 Some excerpts: Wesley J. Smith: Let me ask the question in a different way. Can an AI ever be irrational? Robert J. Marks: Yes. Irrational in the sense of being irrational from the point of an observer. A classic example, and this happened a number of years ago, was that the Soviets during the Cold War developed a high technology to decide whether the US was being attacked by… I’m sorry, whether the Soviet Union was being attacked by the United States. And so Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks
Date
December 30, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming

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Artificial intelligence (and common sense), Featured, GPT-3 (and common sense), Paul Allen (on AI and common sense), Simulation vs. understanding, Winograd Schema (and common sense)}

New: AI Learns to Simulate Common Sense

_{It is a simulation because the AI can perform the task but does not “understand” what the concepts mean} _{Robert J. Marks

December 30, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Programming}

Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, was concerned AI had no common sense. In early 2018, Allen said “AI still lacks what most 10-year-olds possess: ordinary common sense.” He continued, “If we want AI to approach human abilities and have the broadest possible impact in research, medicine and business, we need to fundamentally advance AI’s common sense abilities.” Billionaire Allen coughed up $125 million and founded the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle. I believed that AI would never simulate common sense but always left the door open. Unlike understanding, creativity and sentience, common sense could possibly be computable. There was no indication that common sense was non-algorithmic. And now AI has simulated common sense. The classic test for Read More ›