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Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

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What's the Analogy Making?

The idea is that you have this pretty complicated conceptual space. You can talk about a semantic network or something like that with these different kinds of concept models in your brain that are connected. So let's take the example of walking a dog. OK. Let's see. I see someone out in the street walking a cat. Some people walk their cats, I guess. Seems like a bad idea, but so my model, there's connections between my model of a dog and a model of a cat. And I can immediately see the analogy of that those are analogous situations. But I can also see the differences and that tells me what to expect.

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