Developing AI Like Raising Kids
Another good read: Ted Chiang on why Ai isn’t going to make great art, for The New Yorker . I rather liked this analogy:
As the linguist Emily M. Bender has noted, teachers don’t ask students to write essays because the world needs more student essays. The point of writing essays is to strengthen students’ critical-thinking skills; in the same way t... See more
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How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockettlareviewofbooks.org
But what I think AI needs is a second mode where you're in an unfamiliar situation, something novel is happening that you've never experienced before. You become hyper aware, you become conscious of what's going on, and then you're able to make intuitive decisions about what to do."
Ghost in the machine: The race toward conscious, sentient AI
AI needs to be able to deal not only with specific situations for which there is an enormous amount of cheaply obtained relevant data, but also problems that are novel, and variations that have not been seen before.
Ernest Davis • Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
