How to Humanize AI with Abstraction

Only the Social Singularity Will Enlighten the Darkness

Brent Cooper
Jul 27, 2017 · 15 min read

“The most important problem for AI today is abstraction and reasoning,” — Francois Chollet, AI researcher at Google, quoted in Understanding the limits of deep learning, April 2nd, 2017

Turing-test passing Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already here in various forms, and will continue to evolve and be a boon for the tech sector, but we still have a long way to go. The AI Roadmap Institute outlines 29 Unsolved Problems in AI, many of which could be addressed with better abstraction. AI is simultaneously being developed for purely profit-squeezing exploitative purposes as well as weaponized for war and law enforcement (this has already been the case since the introduction of the ignominious oxymoronic “smart bombs”). A chorus of hype is drowning out the few critical voices that can help shape the peaceful manifestation of AI and develop its commercial educational forms.

p. 7, Abstraction in Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems, 2013

Abstraction in Computer Science

Abstraction and AI

Abstraction in Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems (2013)
Abstraction in Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems (2013)

The Singularity

Conclusion


The Abs-Tract Organization

A Metamodern Think Tank for Global Civil Society and Absolute Social Philosophy, based on new insights in "abstraction."

Brent Cooper

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Political sociologist by training, mystic by nature, rebel by choice. Executive Director of The Abs-Tract Organization. #pointbeing #abstract

The Abs-Tract Organization

A Metamodern Think Tank for Global Civil Society and Absolute Social Philosophy, based on new insights in "abstraction."

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