Algorithms Are Not Enough by Herbert Roitblat

Author:Herbert Roitblat [Roitblat, Herbert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: artificial intelligence; natural intelligence; path problems; insight problems; artificial general intelligence;
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

The ambiguity also extends to the sounds that we hear and to the words that we use every day (see chapter 6). Although early views of artificial intelligence focused on using symbols that were analogous to words, it turns out that words themselves are not constant symbols of anything. Many people are familiar with the ambiguity of words like “bark” or “bank” or “strike,” but the widespread ambiguity of other common words and their degree of ambiguity may be more surprising.

As an exercise, I looked up each word from the sentence in table 4 in a dictionary. The numbers below each word indicate the number of definitions I found for that word in the dictionary. If you combine each of these definitions, you get almost 8 quadrillion (7,788,584,618,680,320) possible interpretations of this sentence, yet few people even notice any ambiguity.

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