Cade Metz’s NYTimes article on Doug Lenat, featuring quote from Ken Forbus and @garymarcus. The connection between the game Traveller and #Cyc is interesting and is new to me.

Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make Computers More Human, Dies at 72 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/technology/douglas-lenat-dead.html

#AI #GOFAI #Reasoning #Commonsense #Knowledge

RT @David_Gunkel
If the theoretical framework of #GOFAI was Analytic Philosophy and cognitive science, the theoretical framework of #LLM and generative #AI is Continental Philosophy and literary theory.

@livingarchitect

The foundational belief of #GOFAI (that was debunked) in an (poorly reasoned) article about the great future of #DL: that’s a first.

“ If a machine can reason effectively about mathematics, the thinking goes, it should naturally acquire other skills, like the ability to write computer code or offer medical diagnoses”

@ste well this is a bit unfair. This #ChatGPT system has absolutely no #reasoning capabilities, has not learned any #axiom, does not know that A and NOT A exclude each other. Of course, the creators of this system could have integrated a #logical reasoner into this system, but this would mean that #GOFAI is needed in addition to #DeepLearning. And this may hurt the feelings of a hardcore deep learner. So please refrain from posing tough questions to ChatGPT! Accept it as it is 😎