I wonder how many people are aware that Ludwig Wittgenstein preempted the logicist program of AI a full century ago. And that the problems that Wittgenstein and symbolic AI ran into were the same. And that they are now being solved.
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peopleWhoNoticed += 2.25 Your Wittgenstein take suggests that Heidegger and W both "deeply critiqued formalist philosophers who preceded GOFAI". In a salon 10 years ago "we" noticed Heidegger's AGI relevance, but not (explicitly) Wittgenstein's... http://emergentepistemology.blogspot.com/2008/02/heideggerian-ai.html …
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Wittengenstein was arguably a formalist philosopher who preempted classical AI. He then ran into problems he could not solve, and the Investigations document that failure. But the problems do have a solution (but it requires to give up formalism, only to regain it later).
2:49 PM - 19 Oct 2018
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