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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by bbctol on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:54PM (#12924248)
Sure, and that's the higher-order problem. If we could make machines that solve any problem the way we do, we'd be a lot closer to AGI, but for now, it's still science fiction for a computer to have beliefs, and understand information in the context of those beliefs.
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Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis... by ethbro on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:09PM (#12924367)
I don't think ranking new information according to held beliefs is necessarily that far towards AGI (admittedly, strong NLP may be, though).

There's no fundamentally creative step in deciding "How well does this new piece of information match pieces I previously had"?

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