AI, concepts, and the paradox of mental representation, with a brief discussion of psychological essentialism
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Mostly philosophers cause trouble. I know because on alternate Thursdays I am one -and I live in a philosophy department where I watch all of them cause trouble. Everyone in artificial intelligence knows how much trouble philosophers can cause (and in particular, we know how much trouble one philosopher -John Searle -has caused). And, we know where they tend to cause it: in knowledge representation and the semantics of data structures. This essay is about a recent case of this sort of thing. One of the take-home messages will be that AI ought to redouble its efforts t o understand concepts.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell.
دوره 13 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001