Decision Management Community

Paul Haley just published a new article “Natural Intelligence“. He writes: Deep natural language understanding (NLU) is different than deep learning, as is deep reasoning. Deep learning facilities deep NLP and will facilitate deeper reasoning, but it’s deep NLP for knowledge acquisition and question answering that seems most critical for general AI.  If that’s the case, we might call such general AI, “natural intelligence”. Here are more quotes: Continue reading →

Jun Cowan: “Using a simple geological example, I argue that geologists operate similarly to Columbo, a 1970s TV detective—inferring, continuously thinking, and asking tangential and often seemingly irrelevant and stupid questions about a clue that doesn’t quite fit into the whole picture. An AI machine, not even the powerful IBM Watson, would ask these questions because one or two clues are deemed statistical outliers. No amount of computer processing power, machine learning, or AI can fill the boots and brains of geologists trained in appropriate relevant skills who interpret disconnected data. At least, not in the foreseeable future.” Read more