The Philosophical Concept of Algorithmic Intelligence

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The Philosophical Concept of Algorithmic Intelligence
Pierre Levy, Pierre Levy's Blog, 2016/07/19
"A science of human intelligence is indeed possible," writes Pierre Levy in a post last year, "but on the condition that we solve the problem of the mathematical modelling of language. I am speaking here of a complete scientific modelling of language, one that would not be limited to the purely logical and syntactic aspects or to statistical correlations of corpora of texts, but would be capable of expressing semantic relationships formed between units of meaning, and doing so in an algebraic, generative mode." I think we can agree that Facebook isn't this. More...