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- What does it mean for a machine to “understand”? https://medium.com/@tdietterich/what-does-it-mean-for-a-machine-to-understand-555485f3ad40 86 comments
- Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning: Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/opinion/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning.html 6 comments technology
- What Does It Mean for AI to Understand? It’s simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machine’s knowledge has proved difficult. https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-for-ai-to-understand-20211216/ 11 comments futurology
- Machine learning algorithms provide translations for bat squeaks. In a step towards understanding the origins of human speech, researchers have worked out a way to understand the meaning of bat calls. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/22/bat-chat-machine-learning-algorithms-provide-translations-for-bat-squeaks 3 comments science
- Any manufacturing recovery will be laborless "You probably know that most cars are made with less than 24 hours worth of human labor. The rest is all done by automation. Machines building machines. It sounds simple, but you have to watch it to really understand what it means." http://singularityhub.com/2010/02/11/no-humans-just-robots-amazing-videos-of-the-modern-factory/?r=redrf 7 comments economy