[ExI] AI as teacher

[BillK]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 21:07, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Can AI really develop new ways of thinking?  Or is this about something else?
> To those of you who know far more about AI than me, what is going on here?   bill w
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AI already has new ways of thinking because it doesn't think like
humans. In fact, at present AI *can't* think like humans. Some
research is going into trying to make AI think more like humans, but
others question whether this is more useful than having two
alternative thinking methods.

This article gives an interesting overview of the current state.
<https://theconversation.com/were-told-ai-neural-networks-learn-the-way-humans-do-a-neuroscientist-explains-why-thats-not-the-case-183993?>
We’re told AI neural networks ‘learn’ the way humans do. A
neuroscientist explains why that’s not the case
Published: June 6, 2022
Author James Fodor
PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne
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BillK