until AI gets over its allergy to innateness, it’s not likely to get very far.https://twitter.com/TonyZador/status/1193176924497096706 …
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how am I dismissing it? I was jist saying there are traditions in AI (namely alife and evolutionary computing) that are expliitly concerned with innateness There are lots of good things on that list, I neither dismissed nor endorsed it
you seem to dismiss symbol-manipulation because it comes from somewhere other than “nature.” but my life’s work has to been to show that symbol-manipulation is part of human nature. spelke similarly has shown eg that spatiotemporal contiguity is part of human nature.
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I don’t dismiss symbol manipulation, I just view it as amongst our most advanced capabilities /inventions and find the underlying more animal primitives more interesting some of my best friends are symbol manipulators!
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all of the human ones. the thing is was asking for an argument about why not implement my list, and you said it was taste about copying from nature. even newborns seem to manipulate symbols (see judit gervain’s followup to my 1999 science study)
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