On Crashing the Barrier of Meaning in Artificial Intelligence

In 1986, the mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota wrote, “I wonder whether or when artificial intelligence will ever crash the barrier of meaning” (Rota 1986). Here, the phrase “barrier of meaning” refers to a belief about humans versus machines: Humans are able to actually understand the situations they encounter, whereas even the most advanced of today’s artificial intelligence systems do not yet have a humanlike understanding of the concepts that we are trying to teach them. This lack of understanding may underlie current limitations on the generality and reliability of modern artificial intelligence systems. In October 2018, the Santa Fe Institute held a three-day workshop, organized by Barbara Grosz, Dawn Song, and myself, called Artificial Intelligence and the Barrier of Meaning. Thirty participants from a diverse set of disciplines — artificial intelligence, robotics, cognitive and developmental psychology, animal behavior, information theory, and philosophy, among others — met to discuss questions related to the notion of understanding in living systems and the prospect for such understanding in machines. In the hope that the results of the workshop will be useful to the broader community, this article summarizes the main themes of discussion and highlights some of the ideas developed at the workshop.

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To the question on identification and differentiation of a philosophical zombie

Философская мысль ◽

10.25136/2409-8728.2020.1.32079 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 52-66

Author(s):

Roman Dushkin

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Information Theory ◽

Human Life ◽

Hard Problem ◽

Cognitive Agent ◽

Cognitive Agents ◽

Operational Criteria ◽

Intelligent Creature ◽

Artificial Intelligence Systems

This article examines the task of identification and differentiation of a so-called “philosophical zombie” in order to form a set of operational criteria for determining the agency of artificial intelligence systems. This task can be viewed as one of the possible ways towards solution of a “hard problem of consciousness”. Despite the fact that the proposed approach alone does not solve the “hard problem”, it reveals certain aspects of neurophysiology, cybernetics and information theory towards its solution. The relevance of this task results from the more extensive implementation of artificial cognitive agents in human life – the boundary that distinguishes an intelligent creature from an artificial cognitive agent, endows an object with agency. Therefore, the development of more complicated artificial cognitive agents (artificial intelligence systems) would ultimately lead to a contentious debate on the topic. The author attempts to introduce the procedure of identification of a philosophical zombie and its restrictions, as well as explores the idea whether or not the artificial cognitive agents would obtain qualia. The article is valuable of those interested in artificial intelligence in all of its aspects, as well as in the philosophy of consciousness.

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Artificial intelligence as a moving force of improvement and innovative development in education and pedagogic

Informatics and Education ◽

10.32517/0234-0453-2018-33-10-21-30 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 21-30

Author(s):

M. G. Koliada ◽

T. I. Bugayova

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Intelligent Systems ◽

Intelligent System ◽

Interaction Analysis ◽

Educational Data Mining ◽

Main Task ◽

Intellectual System ◽

Will Force ◽

To Come ◽

Artificial Intelligence Systems

The article discusses the history of the development of the problem of using artificial intelligence systems in education and pedagogic. Two directions of its development are shown: “Computational Pedagogic” and “Educational Data Mining”, in which poorly studied aspects of the internal mechanisms of functioning of artificial intelligence systems in this field of activity are revealed. The main task is a problem of interface of a kernel of the system with blocks of pedagogical and thematic databases, as well as with the blocks of pedagogical diagnostics of a student and a teacher. The role of the pedagogical diagnosis as evident reflection of the complex influence of factors and reasons is shown. It provides the intelligent system with operative and reliable information on how various reasons intertwine in the interaction, which of them are dangerous at present, where recession of characteristics of efficiency is planned. All components of the teaching and educational system are subject to diagnosis; without it, it is impossible to own any pedagogical situation optimum. The means in obtaining information about students, as well as the “mechanisms” of work of intelligent systems based on innovative ideas of advanced pedagogical experience in diagnostics of the professionalism of a teacher, are considered. Ways of realization of skill of the teacher on the basis of the ideas developed by the American scientists are shown. Among them, the approaches of researchers D. Rajonz and U. Bronfenbrenner who put at the forefront the teacher’s attitude towards students, their views, intellectual and emotional characteristics are allocated. An assessment of the teacher’s work according to N. Flanders’s system, in the form of the so-called “The Interaction Analysis”, through the mechanism of fixing such elements as: the verbal behavior of the teacher, events at the lesson and their sequence is also proposed. A system for assessing the professionalism of a teacher according to B. O. Smith and M. O. Meux is examined — through the study of the logic of teaching, using logical operations at the lesson. Samples of forms of external communication of the intellectual system with the learning environment are given. It is indicated that the conclusion of the found productive solutions can have the most acceptable and comfortable form both for students and for the teacher in the form of three approaches. The first shows that artificial intelligence in this area can be represented in the form of robotized being in the shape of a person; the second indicates that it is enough to confine oneself only to specially organized input-output systems for targeted transmission of effective methodological recommendations and instructions to both students and teachers; the third demonstrates that life will force one to come up with completely new hybrid forms of interaction between both sides in the form of interactive educational environments, to some extent resembling the educational spaces of virtual reality.

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Buildings electricity consumption modeling using artificial intelligence systems

System analysis in economics – 2018: Proceedings of the V International research and practice conference–biennale (21–23 november 2018) ◽

10.33278/sae-2018.eng.167-170 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Eugene Shchetinin

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Electricity Consumption ◽

Artificial Intelligence Systems

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About digital transformation of the transport industry in Russia

Scientific notes of the Russian academy of entrepreneurship ◽

10.24182/2073-6258-2020-19-3-95-105 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (3) ◽

pp. 95-105

Author(s):

Natalia V. Vysotskaya ◽

T. V. Kyrbatskaya

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Business Model ◽

Data Science ◽

Digital Transformation ◽

Digital Culture ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Community Approach ◽

Non Linear ◽

Transport Industry ◽

Artificial Intelligence Systems

The article is devoted to the consideration of the main directions of digital transformation of the transport industry in Russia. It is proposed in the process of digital transformation to integrate the community approach into the company's business model using blockchain technology and methods and results of data science; complement the new digital culture with a digital team and new communities that help management solve business problems; focus the attention of the company's management on its employees and develop those competencies in them that robots and artificial intelligence systems cannot implement: develop algorithmic, computable and non-linear thinking in all employees of the company.

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