Comment by sbdaman

2 years ago

This article summarizing lecture notes from Kenneth A. Taylor is worth reading: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/kenneth-taylor-robots-...

Substance of the article begins after the quote from John Stuart Mill.

>AI-as-engineering isn’t particularly concerned with mimicking the precise way in which the human mind-brain does distinctively human things.

>If I am right that there are many mysteries about the human mind that currently dominant approaches to AI are ill-equipped to help us solve, then to the extent that such approaches continue to dominate AI into the future, we are very unlikely to be inundated anytime soon with a race of thinking robots—at least not if we mean by “thinking” that peculiar thing that we humans do, done in precisely the way that we humans do it.

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freejazz  2 years ago

Well yeah, that's what people mean though. Its the same thing with the visual models where people insist the models are "being creative"

  • sbdaman  2 years ago

    The author knows this and is clarifying that what we mean when we use the words "intelligent" and "thinking" in relation to AI-as-engineering machines is fundamentally different than "thinking" and "intelligent" in the cognitive science sense. That distinction is muddied (not maliciously) in popular discourse about AI but is an important one.

    • freejazz  2 years ago

      Are you referring to yourself in third person while simultaneously saying that you are clarifying things? Or are you talking about Chomsky?

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