^TagTerry Winograd

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post

Author
Gary Smith
Date
August 30, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy

Tagged
Data analysis, Meaningless correlations, Terry Winograd, Winograd Schema}

Computers’ Stupidity Makes Them Dangerous

_{The real danger today is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us} _{Gary Smith

August 30, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Philosophy of Mind, Technocracy}

Many marketing decisions, medical diagnoses, and stock trades, loan and job applications, and election strategies are evaluated by computers. But, as my little experiment shows, the computer does not know whether a pattern is information or noise.

Why an AI pioneer thinks Watson is a “fraud”

_{The famous Jeopardy contest in 2011 worked around the fact that Watson could not grasp the meaning of anything} _{News

August 2, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence}

Gary N. Smith explains that a computer’s inability to understand what “it” means in a sentence is because it doesn’t understand what any of the words in the sentence mean.

AI Is No Match for Ambiguity

_{Many simple sentences confuse AI but not humans} _{Robert J. Marks

June 17, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind}

Because computers lack common sense, they cannot interpret statements that assume a background of general knowledge, as the Winograd Schema challenges show.