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Artificial Intelligence and Plato

שו”תCategory: philosophyArtificial Intelligence and Plato
asked 1 year ago

Good evening!
Today, artificial intelligence has the ability to learn to make new generalizations beyond what the programmer taught it. My question is, how is this possible, and is the human ability to make such a generalization and analogy also based, according to Plato, on an ideal observation that supposedly only a human can observe? I saw that the rabbi wrote in a column that the programmer taught this, but that wouldn’t help, since the object has always understood beyond what you programmed it to?
[It seems to me that this question is also difficult according to Aristotle, who said that generalization is an abstraction that the mind makes, and this is because in order to liken items, there must have been some standard, and after all, there are an infinite number of items, and so how can one liken and compare (for example, every triangle is different and there are countless similar ones to a triangle, that is, any similarity is based on an external standard)? The truth is, apparently, this question is difficult for Aristotle himself, isn’t it?]
Thank you very much!


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מיכי Staff answered 2 months ago
I don’t understand the question. What do you see in artificial intelligence that goes beyond what the programmer taught? See column 653, which appeared the day before yesterday.

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שמעון שי replied 1 year ago

The truth is that I too thought about these things and asked myself if there really is something in the world like a “active intelligence” that is responsible for the intelligence of animals, humans and rare natural phenomena (in Epoch magazine, in an article by Rakefet Tavor from July 23, there is an article about whether the fourth state of aggregation [plasma] in the universe is actually a living being) and if so, perhaps we have given the tools to artificial intelligence to contact the active intelligence.
I may have completely exaggerated and this is an idea for a Hollywood movie, but maybe Aristotle was right.

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