The AI work Phil Agre and I did in the 1980s was based on this sort of analysis. Our best example was a video of two AI PhDs (neither of them us) assembling an Ikea sofa. Man there was great stuff in there.
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Another key philosophical point: reference is a “situated accomplishment.” When the Ikea instructions refer to “Long bolts, J”, the guys spent a couple minutes collaborating to discover what in the physical world it’s talking about. And they get it wrong. And repair the error.
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This is the essence of ethnomethodology unfolding before your eyes. Wish I could show you the video sequence.
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AI is interesting in that the basic problems are readily accessible to everybody by virtue of being human and you can get quite far in terms of insight without ever touching a computer.
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