Frasier Buddolph
CAUTION: May not know what he's talking about.
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Thanks for your comments, EG. There's a lot to think about here
Yes, after a little more reflection, I came to the same conclusion. In the present state of the art AI is CLEVERNESS writ large, and many orders of magnitude greater than human.
Yes, I take your point. But aren't those abstracted models typically structured to describe physical objects, data, or activities? And can those models extrapolate beyond their inputs to arrive at novel, original concepts?
I think there's room for novelty and creativity in "clever" activity as well as "intelligent". Perhaps creativity falls in the blurred region between the two.
The 'intelligence' ascribed in AI (in all generations) more closely corresponds to your category of 'cleverness', insofar as AI applications are coded or trained to operate effectively in the course of a particular grounded activity or procedure.
Yes, after a little more reflection, I came to the same conclusion. In the present state of the art AI is CLEVERNESS writ large, and many orders of magnitude greater than human.
The criterion you cited for discriminating between the two categories - abstraction - may serve as a rule of thumb when differentiating them with respect to human and animal (and human versus animal) behaviors, but it doesn't afford any traction with respect to AI's.
This is because all AI's are operating with an abstracted model or rule base or training history that is hoped to adequately reflect best practice, but isn't linked to grounded praxis.
Yes, I take your point. But aren't those abstracted models typically structured to describe physical objects, data, or activities? And can those models extrapolate beyond their inputs to arrive at novel, original concepts?
I suspect a version of the dichotomy applicable to AI's would be better framed with respect to something along the lines of 'novelty' / 'creativity' than 'abstraction'.
I think there's room for novelty and creativity in "clever" activity as well as "intelligent". Perhaps creativity falls in the blurred region between the two.