A New Philosophy on Artificial Intelligence | Kristian Hammond | TEDxNorthwesternU See Kristian Hammond
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Clearly there is a technological aspect of AI that drives much of the research. However, there is a very important scientific aspect of AI that involves the study of the mind. What is the organizational structure of human memory? How do people learn? How do people make decisions? How do people think?...
As indicated above, the areas of learning and knowledge organization are of central importance. These touch on many of the subfields within AI, including natural language processing, vision, speech recognition, expert systems, and robotics. We have also mentioned the reasons for developing a psychological methodology for modeling cognitive phenomena.
One main requirement for productive and useful AI research is the capability to work on large, real-world problems. There is a broad consensus that no major breakthrough in AI will emerge from a small, concise program or from toy domains. AI programs should be explorations in complexity and should tackle the world as it exists.
One extension to this argument is that AI researchers should look at problems that span more than one subfield. Thus, there should be efforts in integrating expert systems and natural language, or speech recognition and vision. Researchers tend to shy away from these large problems, saying that there are still many small problems that have yet to be solved. That may be, but by looking at larger problems, we may gain important insights into the nature of intelligence and cognition.
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All good. I recommend that you also create a LinkedIn account as an online resume. I invite all of my Yale students to connect to me on LinkedIn to leverage my network, such as it is. I also am interested in following your trajectory, but not in a creepy way.
On Monday, my daughter Alexandra spoke to the class about her current work. Down the road, if you have some ideas or thoughts you would like to share with future generations of Yalies, let me know. I would be happy to welcome you back, if not for a lecture, maybe a cup of coffee.
Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.
If you think about it, that thought could apply to LLMs as well.
Valedictory Cavafy: Ithaka. Life is a journey. Pay attention to the ride, not just the destination. read by James Bond, sort of.
More appropriate: Billy Collins just in time for Mother's Day, May 11th. youtube