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Noam Chomsky
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Could be a fascinating discussion. Some time between your trips to Africa and elsewhere? When's a possible time. Will
check with Bob too.
Noam
the issue of modeling requires mathematics before engineering or at least along side it. i spent the day with gromov
yesterday, He s come around on a great many issues and you guys see many things alike. I hope to brign him to
cambridge. and you danny hills. berwick , martin he and I can spend some time together. III bring the deli.
On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Noam Chomsky
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We were very pleased that you could stop by — on your way to Senegal! That's impressive. Valeria enjoyed it
very much as well, and it seemed to have a good effect. She was a lot better today. We even went out for a walk for the
first time.
Don't entirely follow what you say below. About Al, the field has two parts. One is basically engineering: let's
construct a driverless car, a robot that can clean the house, etc. The other is basically science: let's try to discover how
the human mind works, adopting a standard procedure of constructing models, and since we're thinking of the mind as
basically a computational system, computational models. Normal science.
I have never seen any difference between the kind of work that I do — and Bob, and quite a few others — and the
second kind of AI, which has pretty much withered on the vine as resources are poured into the first kind — which is
doubtless of considerable importance, as engineering generally is.
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So it's not really clear to me what is at stake.
Noam
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thank you for hosting me last night I could not pass up the opportunity to see you both, but thought it prudent
not to strain Valeria's time.. ( good juice) My thinking is as follows. I suggest that artificial intelligence and common
sense are the computational models. but computation does not need language. It appears along the inverse function
ie questions ? what if? then you need a language that has infinite possible configurations.. even a dog knows what
happens if i throw the ball, only human thought asks what if , no gravity, what if, ball filled with helium etc.
I think it
is Al to the the power of minus 1.
so if chemical feedback loops , began to anticipate their reactions to many
previously unsearched configurations.
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