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Melanie Mitchell: Abstraction and Analogy in AI

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Bottoming Out in the Physical?

I hope you don't mind my spending so much time on these very abstract questions, but just the views they imply are fascinating to me. The bottoming out in the physical really does feel to me like empiricism. And it feels like there's, I mean, we don't really have answers to any of these like metaphysical questions and the nature of cognition. It's a very tricky debate,. There's kind of an interesting overlap here just in the ways we think about concepts and then how that intersects with some of these metaphysical views as well.

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