Artifictional Intelligence by Harry Collins

Author:Harry Collins
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509504114
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2018-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Pattern recognition: Bottom-up, top-down and the sociology of knowledge

These chapters unite the position of the sociologist and the AI believer in ways that, a few years ago, seemed impossible. The ideas we have bounced off are, once more, those of Ray Kurzweil. In Chapter 7 we’ll look at Kurzweil’s claim that the crucial feature of the brain is a huge set – 300 million – of hierarchically arranged pattern recognizers. I am told by those who understand neuroscience that Kurzweil’s model is far too simple and there are many other crucial features of the brain but, for the moment, it is useful to work from the Kurzweil model even if it is only a ‘cartoon’ of the brain. In the spirit of the principles outlined earlier, we will make it harder for ourselves by assuming Kurzweil’s simple model is right. What we want to show is that even if this simple model is right, and it is a model that, from the outset, makes the brain into a kind of computer very similar to the computers currently being built, it still won’t learn to do what humans do without some kind of modification that enables it to be embedded in society.

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