Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
by rendall on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:04AM
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It should be at least theoretically possible for an AI to identify contradictions, incoherence and inconsistency in a set of assertions. So, not identifying falsehood per se, but assigning a fairly accurate likelihood score based solely on the internal logic of the symbol stream. In other words, a bullshit detector.
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Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
by nimish on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:15AM
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> It should be at least theoretically possible for an AI to identify contradictions, incoherence and inconsistency in a set of assertions
Not in the slightest. Likelihood of veracity is opinion -- laundering it as fact to make some people feel better doesn't make it any more subjective, or authoritative.
Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
by rendall on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:32AM
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I think we're not disagreeing, exactly.
As a simple example, here is a set of assertions:
* The moon is made of green cheese
* The moon is crystalline rock surrounding an iron core
It wouldn't take an AI to see that both of these can't be true, even if we weren't clear about what a moon is made of, exactly.
Some of our common understanding could contain more complicated internal contradictions that might be harder for a human to tease apart, that an AI might be able to identify.
Re:Dublin Core's dirty little secret (2010)
by akiselev on Saturday October 02, 2021 @11:50AM
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How would the AI know that "made of green cheese" isn't just another way of saying "crystalline rock surrounding an iron core"? To find a contradiction in a statement like "X is A. X is B" it'd first have to be intelligent enough to know when A != B. In your example, that's not as simple as 1 != 0.