Pour sortir un peu du running et faire un tour du côté des neurosciences, un post qui renvoie vers un article passionnant sur Douglas Hofstader, l’auteur de « Gödel Escher Bach », que je me suis juré de lire mais … que je n’ai pas lu, et que je connaissais pas.
Il met en scène également Noam Chomsky – père spirituel de Steven Pinker (qui est plus accessible au commun des mortels). Une perspective intéressante sur l’IA, assez éloignée de ce que raconte Kurtzweil, et qui éclaire aussi le phénomène « big data ». Un peu ardu, mais passsionant !
The Atlantic has an amazing in-depth article on how Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, has been quietly working in the background of artificial intelligence on the deep problems of the mind.
Hofstadter’s vision of AI – as something that could help us understand the mind rather than just a way of solving difficult problems – has gone through a long period of being deeply unfashionable.
Developments in technology and statistics have allowed surprising numbers of problems to be solved by sifting huge amounts of data through relatively simple algorithms – something called machine learning.
Translation software, for example, long ago stopped trying to model language and instead just generates output from statistical associations. As you probably know from Google Translate, it’s surprisingly effective.
The Atlantic article tackles Hofstadter’s belief that, contrary to the machine learning approach, developing AI programmes can be a…
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