AI Artificial Intelligence Learning and Reading Human Symbols Part 4
In order to take AI from a mere program that is very good within a narrow sphere and elevate it to the level of actual intelligence, we need to find a way to teach it how to recognize and interpret symbols. One of the main topics of discussion in this series has been whether we should take a subjective, interpretivebased approach, or an objective, universal one to training the AI as to the nature of symbols. Before we delve further down this discussion though, we should take a step back to truly recognize the enormity of the task. To do that, we need to recognize that there is disagreement over the very nature of symbols in the first place. What makes a symbol a symbol For the purpose of our discussion, we should briefly look at the definition given by the authors of Symbolic Behavior in Artificial Intelligence, the paper that has been the basis of our discussion in this series. They draw in part on a definition given by Nolan Simon describing a symbol as a series of interrelated physical patterns t
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