Artifical Intelligence – “understanding”?
First I have to apologize to all religious people whom I might offend with my next lines - yet I assume they would not be reading this article anyway. Anyhow, I respect their faith and form of life nonetheless.
What is understanding?
Many brilliant minds have taken up the challenge to define “understanding” with not much success, so I won’t attempt do so myself. However, using some common sense I will build a theory about why AI is such a hard nut to crack and how understanding plays such an important role in modeling its complexity.
The AI research community has always been quite diverse in defining what actually is the holy grail of Artificial Intelligence. Some people think that we are completely or almost entirely on a wrong track with our current approach to AI. Some others – not neccesserily AI researchers but philosophers, actually oppose the idea and insist that AI is actually wasted time and it is impossible to produce. I tend to agree more or less with the second lot but in a little bit different way… Continue reading
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