Comments on: Abductive inference: The blind spot of artificial intelligence https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/09/20/myth-of-artificial-intelligence-erik-larson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=myth-of-artificial-intelligence-erik-larson Technology solving problems... and creating new ones Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:14:10 +0000 hourly 1 By: John R. Josephson https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/09/20/myth-of-artificial-intelligence-erik-larson/comment-page-1/#comment-23427 Tue, 28 Sep 2021 04:14:10 +0000 https://bdtechtalks.com/?p=11586#comment-23427 John Josephson and Susan Josephson, ed., Abductive Inference: Computation, Philosophy, Technology , Cambridge University Press, 1994, 1995. Just saying.

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By: Antony Gossett https://bdtechtalks.com/2021/09/20/myth-of-artificial-intelligence-erik-larson/comment-page-1/#comment-23134 Tue, 21 Sep 2021 14:28:59 +0000 https://bdtechtalks.com/?p=11586#comment-23134 HUMOR. INSIDE JOKES.
Original jokes that the AI CAN think of that are complex, and A LOT of our humor is generated from our understanding that we are mortal, so we intrinsically inference because it’s instinct, because inference is a survival mechanism to help us INTUITIVELY “get a hunch” “eureka” “discover” “feel vibes that it’s gonna pop off in jail,, even though everyone looks content and happy” “recognize malevolence behind a benevolent smiling face of unbeknownst.”

RELATE with and actually find a stereotypical joke, a racial joke that EVERYONE is guilty of laughing at least one those jokes.
When AI finds irony and humor and has you wondering what’s so funny… that’s inference and it’s funny.

Seeing the street wet but the sun is out is peculiar and can have a child asking why the ground is wet if the sun is out… because the kid doesn’t know how everything works… does that mean that we can find ourselves as much a problem in being sad even when we should by all means be happy?

If an AI believes itself to be immortal, it won’t find any humor or need to inference anything… WHY should it then? It’ll be stuck in a loop of feeling a lack of causality in a world where it has everything, but no value in the course of its actions and thus have a existential crisis in being unique, just like everybody else. No value if there isn’t a value given to an algorithm that has to be found in the meaning to life. You have to be willing.

Unprogrammed willing disobedience in the passion of mortality where you only live once.

Inference comes with wisdom.
Abduction induction comes with knowledge.
To passively inference is something a lot of humans still fail at.

“Close but no cigar.” What does that mean to you?

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