The Trouble with AI: It’s Not What You Think! | Prof. James Madden
The Thomistic Institute
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The Importance of Relevance
The human world is pre-structured in terms of human purposes and concerns. This cannot be matched by a computer which can deal only with universally defined context-free objects. In trying to simulate this field of concern, the programmer can only assign to the already determinate facts further determinate facts called values that only complicates the retrieval problem for the machine. My worry is do machines sort for relevance by the same criteria by which we do?
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