Making analogies is the engine of human intelligence, but for humanity as a whole, and our collective-intelligence enterprise called science, it is an obstacle. I’ll try to expand on that in this, maybe not sharpest of posts. Hypotheses In science and life alike, we use analogies as shortcuts to form hypotheses. Any other strategy—experimenting, making […]
Category: Artificial intelligence
Minds, Machines and Herbert Simon
Our designed reality Two years late to the party, I discovered the brilliant review paper “Machine Behavior” by Iyad Rahwan and an all-star cast. Its premise is that we need to let systems relying on artificial intelligence be scientific study objects in their own right, even though they are, to some extent, engineered. The article […]
The man-machine battle moves beyond the board
Korea is, in general, a TV-friendly country. Regular restaurants have sets continuously showing soap operas, news, or reality shows. The surprise for the last two days was that my lunch restaurants were showing a board game. Students all over campus were watching it too. Baduk (a.k.a. go) is quite popular TV entertainment, but very niched […]
Petter Holme 