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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Place That Bottoms Out?

Is there a place that bottoms out or is everything just the set of analogies that have kind of been collected by experience? That's really interesting. I like the work of, say, George Lekoff, who looks at concepts as sort of bottoming out with basic physical experience. And what it tells us is that maybe we should be looking to some of these ideas from developmental psychology to think about AI.

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