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The article relates to a project I dreamed of ... helping people who disagree have a fair argument. In my notion, a team of philosophy students, masquerading as a program, directed discussants toward fair argument with a view, perhaps, ultimately, in my dreams, teaching a program to step in for the students. But keeping people talking is not the problem. Therapy programs have been good at it for years. And three-year-olds. The three year old has mastered the fact that conversation has both a procedural and a content dimension and the procedural dimension is sufficient to maintain a conversation with a sufficiently naïve adult. As soon as the adult masters the same fact, the conversation ends immediately. Why? Because! Why? Because! No child I have ever known is dumb enough to carry on such a conversation. Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of g??? ? Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2017 11:04 AM To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] AI and argument The computers being trained to beat you in an argument <http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41010848> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41010848 > At the University of Dundee we have recently even been using 2,000-year-old > theories of rhetoric as a way of spotting the structures of real-life > arguments. -- ☣ gⅼеɳ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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