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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear All,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">As the themes fly so fast, I have mixed
some of the ideas previously circulated<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">When Krassimir was asking about
definitions of intelligence, responded by several parties (Karl,
Yixin, Eric, Marcus...), I was reminded of a curious fact. Nobody
would dare speak about intelligence in the "inanimate" world.
Undoubtedly intelligence appears with life, with the biologic
system. Given that life is hardly definable, no wonder that
intelligence, one of its essential characteristics neither is. Of
course, we can produce many empirical notions approaching it...
Nevertheless, where exactly can be situated the emergence of
intelligence in the biologic? </div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">A very recent contribution letter in
Nature was claiming with good and brief arguments that sentience
and cognition are absolutely related to the living cell, even the
simplest ones (our occasional FIS colleague Bill Miller was one of
the signatories--in Vol 620, p. 37, 3 August 2023). In a similar
direction I also very recently have published a contribution in
BioSystems journal (with Jorge Navarro --233, 2023, 105039)
attempting the intellective link from cells to nervous systems and
the human case, connecting with AI. In human intelligence, the
extraordinary role played by social emotions, we argue, should be
put in a new light (remember Kahneman about S1 and S2 utterly
different human responses to novelty), at least if we want to
contribute somehow to a better understanding of today's mounting
techno-troubles. Let me state that referring to human intentions,
purposes, values, etc., they do not quite make a cogent sense
except properly connected with the reality of our life courses or
"cycles"... In fact, these connections are frequently established
in a biased and tricky way by most commercial AI systems. But
there are positive hints there (see the field of "sentiment
analysis"), for the hope is that AI might open new windows to the
rather limited understanding of our whole intellection
(intelligence/emotions), and even evolve towards a new
understanding of AI itself, more properly intertwined with the
extended realms of, say, natural intelligence.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It is in the above sense that I welcome
the call to a new paradigm, etc., as a possibility to provoke new
discussions. Although I disagree with the scientific-philosophical
validity of the term, and with some of the gross simplifications
about the characterization of physical paradigm. (Some of the most
magnificent syntheses of human history precisely were there: what
was the Newtonian theory but a fantastic synthesis of the
celestial motions and all the diverse motions on Earth? An
amazing, epochal integration). I also fail to make sense of
"wisdom"-- does it abide in common folks, in social networks, in
"experts", in committees, in governments, in entire societies or
cultures, in our civilization? Is it just a vague idealization out
from common sense? In any event, wisdom seems to be the most
scarce, depleted public resource today. In particular, I think a
well-arranged AI system for medical diagnosis could be far more
reliable and wiser than a facultative of primary care or a
specialist (I mean, becoming a great helping hand for the troubled
practitioners of our overwhelmed public health systems). And
thinking more in general, these days I was trying to compile a
list of our common intellectual limitations (maybe I will send
them to the list for advise later on), in this respect the mirror
that AI could offer on us could be scary...</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">To conclude, it looks as if a good
rhetoric instrumentation has been deployed by the presenters
(thanks!), which is important and interesting at the time being to
promote a general debate on the AI complex and somehow risky
enterprise, but in my opinion with some gaps yet. I will try to
advance more precisions in later exchanges.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best regards,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">--Pedro<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 19/10/2023 a las 11:55, Eric Werner
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<p>Dear Yixin,</p>
<p>Can you be more specific what you mean by "change the paradigm
used in AI". It might help to give a specific example. </p>
<p>*At present AI systems certainly behave as if they are goal
directed. <br>
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<p>*AI systems appear to have wisdom in that they can propose wise
courses of action</p>
<p>* What do you mean by "pure formalism"? It seems one of the
powers of formalism is to understand AI and human intelligence.
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<p>* It seems AI systems exhibit human-like wisdom when they offer
advice or guide the actions of a virtual assistant or self
driving car. The react based on the circumstances and goals of
the other, at leas to an extent. <br>
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<p>* Why can't a machine understand human goals and purposes if it
gains a model of those from human data? <br>
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<p>* Why can't an AI system have intentions? <br>
</p>
<p>My overall problem is understanding your specific criticism of
the present AI paradigm? This notion seems to me to need clearer
definition. <br>
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<p>How would you overcome the present AI paradigm and what
specifically is different when you want to "change the paradigm
used in AI"???</p>
<p>This is not a criticism it is a real question in trying to
understand you. At present I just don't see the difference
between the present AI paradigm and your new AI paradigm. <br>
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<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Eric <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/19/23 8:48 AM, 钟义信 wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dear Krassimir, Dear
Eric, and Dear Colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The discussion is
going on well thanks to all your efforts.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is a few points
I would like to mention (or re-mention).</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(1) The purpose of
the "declaration on Paradigm Change in AI" is to make an
appeal for <u>change the paradigm used in AI.</u> </font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(2) There may have
different understanding on the concept of paradigm. However,
<u>the concept of paradigm for a scientific discipline has
been re-defined as the scientific world view and the
associated methodology</u> because the scientific
worldview and its methodology as a whole is the only factor
that can determine whether a scientific discipline needs a
"revolution" (Kuhn's language).</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(3) The major result
of "paradigm change in AI" is <u>to change the methodology
used in AI, including the principles of "pure formalism"
and "divide and conquer"</u>. This is because of the fact
that <u>the former principle leads to the ignoring the
meaning and value and thus leads to the loss of
understanding ability and explaining ability</u> while <u>the
latter one leads to the loss of the general theory for AI</u>.
Note that "no explaining ability" and "no general theory"
are the most typical and also most concerned problems for
current AI.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(4) There is <u>difference
between human intelligence and human wisdom</u>. One of
the functions of human wisdom is to find the to-be-solved
problem which must be meaningful for human purpose of
improving the living and developing. Yet, the function of
human intelligence is to solve the problem defined by human
wisdom. </font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(5) Human
intelligence can be simulated by machine. But human wisdom
cannot be simulated by machine because machine is non-living
beings that has no its own purpose and cannot understand
human purpose. No purpose means no wisdom.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I wonder if you agree
or not. Comments are welcome!</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Best regards,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Yixin, Eric and FIS colleagues,
<div>Let me present some thoughts about </div>
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align="center"><b>The “Intelligence” Paradigm</b></p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">For
those who are not familiar with the concepts of
"paradigm" and "paradigm shift", I would
recommend texts from Wikipedia that explain it
clearly enough.</p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">I
myself maintain a neutral position in the
dispute between Popper and Kuhn regarding the
development of science. Both theses have their
grounds, but at different levels and stages. In
fact, in this case, the law of quantitative
accumulation, which leads to qualitative
changes, applies. Obviously, in a number of
cases the paradigm shift happens in leaps and
bounds, while in others it happens smoothly and
barely perceptibly.</p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">For
example, the accumulation of sufficient
observations and evidences regarding the shape
of the earth required a shift to a new paradigm:
from the "Earth is flat" paradigm to the "Earth
is not flat" paradigm.</p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">Sometimes
opposing paradigms can coexist, not negating
each other, but complementing each other. For
example, this is the case with Euclid's fifth
postulate (the parallel postulate).</p>
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postulate has long been considered self-evident
or inevitable, but no evidence has been found.
Eventually, it was discovered that reversing the
postulate gave valid, albeit different,
geometries. A geometry where the parallelism
postulate does not hold is known as
non-Euclidean geometry.</p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">With
regard to the paradigm of "intelligence" we have
a similar situation. We have at least two
opposing paradigms based on two opposing
postulates.</p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The
first, let's call it the "flat intelligence
postulate", was well articulated by Yixin in his
post:</p>
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10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">"Intelligence
is the ability to solve problems, but not the
ability to detect and define problems, the
latter of which is one of the faculties of
wisdom."</p>
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style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm
10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"">The
second, let's call it the "non-flat intelligence
postulate", will sound unifying: "Intelligence
is both the ability to solve problems and the
ability to detect and define problems" (Eric),
but in different directions in the hierarchy of
intelligences (KM)". This is how we arrive at
the idea of cybernetic systems, where there is a
controller and a controlled, but the controller
is connected to the environment from which it
receives controlling influences and is, in
practice, both "controller" and "controlled",
but in different aspects of the system.</p>
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