Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
What’s difficult is to state our aesthetic values clearly enough to enable the program itself to make the evaluation at each generation.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
Human minds are not elusive, ghostly inner things. They are seething, swirling oceans of prediction, continuously orchestrated by brain, body, and world . We should be careful what kinds of material, digital, and social worlds we build, because in building those worlds we are building our own minds too.
kyla scanlon • The Nostalgia Cycle Loop
With all the challenges in ethics and computation, and the knowledge needed from fields like linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience, and not just mathematics and computer science, it will take a village to raise to an AI.
Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
hilosophical theories are much more like good stories than scientific explanations.’ This provocative remark comes from the paper ‘Linguistic Philosophy and Perception’ (1953) by Margaret Macdonald.
Peter West • For Margaret Macdonald, philosophical theories are akin to stories, meant to enlarge certain aspects of human life
Much of our seeming intelligence actually comes not from raw brainpower or a plethora of instincts, but rather from the accumulated repertoire of mental tools (e.g., integers), skills (differentiating right from left), concepts (fly wheels), and categories (basic color terms) that we inherit culturally from earlier generations.
Joseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
For a computer to make a subtle combinational joke, never mind to assess its tastefulness, would require, first, a data-base with a richness comparable to ours, and, second, methods of link-making (and link-evaluating) comparable in subtlety with ours.
Margaret Boden • Creativity in a Nutshell
To think that we can simply abandon symbol-manipulation is to suspend disbelief.
Gary Marcus • Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall
Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.