There's an essay, "Intelligence Without Representation" that Brooks wrote in 1987, http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf, that offered what was then a new point of view on how to consider AI.
// Paul On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:10 PM Paul Hertz <igno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Max, > > The robotics researcher Rodney Brooks back in the late 1980s argued the AI > based on the construction of a "knowledge base" was bound to fail. He made > the case that a robot adapting to an environment was far more likely to > achieve intelligence of the sort that humans demonstrate precisely because > it was embodied. Some of his ideas are presented in the movie Fast, Cheap, > and Out of Control, directed ISTR by Errol Morris. If you haven't seen it > yet, I can recommend it. > > -- Paul > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021, 1:38 PM Max Herman via NetBehaviour < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> I know virtually nothing about AI, beyond what the letters stand for, but >> noticed this new article in Quanta Magazine. Does it pertain at all? >> Interestingly it concludes that in order for AI to be human-like it will >> need to understand analogy, the basis of abstraction, which may require it >> to have a body! 🙂 >> >> >> https://www.quantamagazine.org/melanie-mitchell-trains-ai-to-think-with-analogies-20210714/?mc_cid=362710ae88&mc_eid=df8a5187d9 >> >> I have been interested in the book *GEB *by Hofstadter for some time, >> and have been researching how it was referenced (specifically its Chapter >> IV "Consistency, Completeness, and Geometry" and its Introduction) by Italo >> Calvino in *Six Memos for the Next Millennium*, so Mitchell's connection >> to Hofstadter and *GEB *is interesting on a general level. >> >> Coincidentally I contacted her a year ago to ask about the Calvino >> connection but she replied she hadn't read any Calvino or the *Six Memos*. >> However, his titles for the six memos -- Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, >> Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency -- might be exactly the kinds of >> "bodily" senses AI will need to have! >> >> All best, >> >> Max >> >> https://www.etymonline.com/word/analogy >> https://www.etymonline.com/word/analogue >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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