AI & Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence cannot avoid philosophy. If a computer program is to behave intelligently in the real world, it must be provided with some kind of framework into which to fit particular facts it is told or discovers. This amounts to at least a fragment of some kind of philosophy, however naive.
- John McCarthy
- John McCarthy
posted by Shunkai Fu at 8:25 PM
3 Comments:
"Philosophy needs AI in order to make progress with many difficult questions about the nature of mind, and AI needs philosophy in order to help classify goals, methods, and concepts and to help with several specific technical problems." -- Aaron Sloman
I do agree that it is necessary for philosophy to guide AI's direction, like the role of philosophy in clon event. When we do research on AI, in fact, we are, to some extent, study and copy ourselves. It is a serious problem, even currently we, often, do what we want, aiming at ambitious goals.
"Designing testable working system will teach us new, detailed, precise, answers to questions in other areas of philosophy" - Aaron Sloman
It is a meaningful statement. We can do test on ourselves, but we have no chance or esy way to observe and adjust the inner system. If we can do experiment on artificial testable system, things will be much better - observed effect can be, reversely, used to infer what is on in ourselves. A rule alwyas work is that more observation more reasonable discussion.
"The disappearing boundary between AI and philosophy is nothing new. It is often said that as philosophers discover how to make progress in some area, that area ceases to be philosophy and becomes a new technical discipline: e.g. physics, biology, psychology, logic, linguistics, or political science."
What a wonderful recognition by researchers! So, it seems that each great progress is based on step-outside from the hidden side in some aspect of philosophy.
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