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There’s no Ambiguity, but Infinite Intensions: On Ambiguity, Language, and the Language of Thought
There’s no Ambiguity, but Infinite Intensions: On Ambiguity, Language, and the Language of Thought
Infinite Intensions
Walid Saba, PhD
Jun 23
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Voodoo
Artificial Intelligence and Natural Voodoo
Walid Saba, PhD
May 27
LLMs don’t even do ‘approximate retrieval’ — embarrassingly, they try to recall some ‘similars’
LLMs don’t even do ‘approximate retrieval’ — embarrassingly, they try to recall some ‘similars’
In an excellent new post Melanie Mitchell addresses a important issue related to large language models (LLMs) namely the nature of…
Walid Saba, PhD
May 15
A Refutation of John Searle’s Famous Chinese Room Argument?
A Refutation of John Searle’s Famous Chinese Room Argument?
The Argument
Walid Saba, PhD
Apr 27
Testing GPT-4 for reasoning and language understanding
Testing GPT-4 for reasoning and language understanding
Walid Saba, PhD
Feb 10
Large Language Models and what Information Theory tells us about the Evolution of Langauge
Large Language Models and what Information Theory tells us about the Evolution of Langauge
In an article in The Gradient (and briefly in a previous post) I described what I called MTP — the Missing Text Phenomenon, which is the…
Walid Saba, PhD
Sep 25, 2022
Why is “Learning” so Misunderstood?
Why is “Learning” so Misunderstood?
I have written a few posts where I make the point that most of the important knowledge that is needed to build intelligent agents is not…
Walid Saba, PhD
Aug 31, 2022
Why Commonsense Knowledge is not (and cannot be) Learned
Why Commonsense Knowledge is not (and cannot be) Learned
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Walid Saba, PhD
Aug 28, 2022
Walid Saba, PhD
Aug 1, 2022
Compositionality: the curse of connectionist AI
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Walid Saba, PhD
Jul 18, 2022
Universally Valid Templates: one more time for the Deep Learners who appreciate proofs
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Walid Saba, PhD
Jul 14, 2022
Childhood occurs before adulthood: Awards and misguided hype aside, AI is on the wrong side of the tracks
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Walid Saba, PhD
May 1, 2022
The Beauty of Systematicity and Formality in Natural Language
In the Beginning
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Walid Saba, PhD
Dec 29, 2021
AI Cannot Ignore Symbolic Logic, and Here’s Why
edited 1/2/2022
Generalization and High-Level…
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Walid Saba, PhD
Oct 11, 2021
Do we learn abstractions, or just instantiate innate metaphysical templates?
It seems obvious (Or does…
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Walid Saba, PhD
Sep 7, 2021
On the Difference Between Recognition and Understanding
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Walid Saba, PhD
Aug 19, 2021
ML is not Relevant to NLU: Replies to some ‘worthy’ Objections
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Walid Saba, PhD
Jul 24, 2021
Ambiguity, IntenSion and Relevancy
An Infinite Set of Attributes?
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Walid Saba, PhD
Jul 21, 2021
Hybrid, or Modular AI? Types Matter, and they cannot be Hybrid
What exactly do we mean by ‘hybrid’?
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Walid Saba, PhD
Jun 29, 2021
Reward is NOT Enough, and Neither is (Machine) Learning
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Walid Saba, PhD
May 3, 2021
Learning is Overrated: Machine Learning vs. Knowledge Acquisition
Knowing-How vs. Knowing-That
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Walid Saba, PhD
Apr 27, 2021
The Missing Text Phenomenon, Again: the case of Compound Nominals
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Walid Saba, PhD
Apr 25, 2021
It is time for the Deep Learning ‘God Fathers’ to be more Objective
A Personal Prologue
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