…the vast majority of inferences we make are seemingly mundane, like all the multifarious leaps and guesses made in the course of ordinary conversation. Unfortunately for researchers in AI, even mundane inferences are not simple to program.
—Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do #ai
…understanding natural language requires lots of commonsense inferences, which are neither logically certain nor (often) highly probable. It requires, in other words, lots of abductions.
—Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do #ai
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In every language are double entendres. That should give AI plenty to figure out.
