Consider the following questions: A: "Will it rain in Paris at midnight tonight?" B: "Will I blink in the next 5 seconds?" If I wish to find the answer to question A, I might need to look at the conditions of the atmosphere over Paris and then use knowledge of...
Disclaimer: this post is a collection of preliminary thoughts around a specific question for MSFP'19 blogpost writing day. I do not intend to present novel results or define a research agenda. 1. Motivation The capital of Mozambique is Maputo. This is a fact about the world I learned in school...
Consider the following questions:
A: "Will it rain in Paris at midnight tonight?"
B: "Will I blink in the next 5 seconds?"
If I wish to find the answer to question A, I might need to look at the conditions of the atmosphere over Paris and then use knowledge of how climate evolves. I might need readings of temperature, wind speed, humidity, and pressure, and I might also need complex mathematical models of the weather.
If I wish to find the right answer to question B, I can just decide to blink now.
There is an activity that I would roughly describe as "figuring out how the world is like." This activity is to be understood as... (read more)
Disclaimer: this post is a collection of preliminary thoughts around a specific question for MSFP'19 blogpost writing day. I do not intend to present novel results or define a research agenda.
The capital of Mozambique is Maputo. This is a fact about the world I learned in school many years ago. Some part of my brain must have changed in order to store this fact and allow me to remember it today. It may be possible, in principle, to recover this fact by simply looking at my brain.
In this post, I consider an analogous topic in the context of Artificial Intelligence: is it possible to retrieve the... (read 1497 more words →)