Oscar Davies

I’m talking about Charles Sanders Peirce’s article Deduction, Induction and Hypothesis. He describes a kind of thinking he calls “abduction”, which is the drawing of plausible conclusions that could not be arrived at based solely on what is observed. It’s an operation that makes human thinking different to AI’s To...

Original article here. “Another thing that makes this discussion difficult is that we are talking about systems that don’t exist, that we don’t know how to build.” (1:06:10) At some points in his recent interview, Ilya Sutskever seems to believe that no one knows how to build intelligent computers, but...

By Oscar Davies The authors of AI 2027 repeatedly misrepresent the scientific reports they reference as evidence to support their arguments. I’m writing a comprehensive review of AI 2027 (to be posted soon), but in the meantime I want to briefly present an example of the misrepresentations: In a section...

On the claim “We get the sense of words from how they relate to one another in sentences”. It will be interesting to look into this theory as it is a theory of how computers get the meanings of words. We will see that the idea of “meaning” or “sense”...

[new version] When someone says “computers will be intelligent”, what do they mean? Anyone can make any claim. Look: I can say “teleportation will be invented soon”. But what’s the interest in that unless I have evidence? You open If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies eager to hear an argument,...