We know there is a pyramid of data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom. Knowledge contents & logical rules can be deposited / programmed into knowledge bases / expert systems.
Some researchers / scholars measure human wisdom with certain instruments or tools e.g. SAWS, 3D-WS, ASTI, BWP etc. Can we choose some of the wise people & program their human wisdom into Artificial Intelligence?
Good question: I think any AI implementation of wisdom would benefit from conceptualizing wisdom through a geographical lens. The four short papers below are all related to this point: a more direct connection to AI implementation is the idea that geographical reasoning is, in logical terms, a form of nonmonotonic reasoning. These thoughts can be elaborated and articulated with the distributed cognition literatures...
Article The wise stance in human geography
Article The logical status of applied geographical reasoning
Article Introduction: Learning as a Geographical Process
Article Learning Wisdom Through Geographical Dislocations
Hi Stephen,
A recent paper where the key focus was on matters of the "proper" definition of wisdom is:
Walsh, R., 2015. What is wisdom? Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary syntheses. Review of General Psychology, 19(3), p.278.
http://www.drrogerwalsh.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/What-is-Wisdom-Cross-Cultural-Cross-Disciplinary-Syntheses-Roger-Walsh-2015-Review-of-General-Psychology.pdf
For my part, I think it's more beneficial to entertain multiple definitions and to have ongoing debates about it rather than canonize one definition over all others, but YMMV.
I remember watching old 60's movies with artificial intelligence agent interacting intelligently with humans. Now we constantly interact with such devices: automated phone answering systems and which they were never invented; none of these movies predicted how dum and irritating these systems woud be. In these movies, the usually woman voice was so compasionate and always understanding the humans. When you call a company and expect to be answered by a human being and end up being answered by these dum answering systems , you find no intelligence nor sympathy in them. In fact , the more they imitate on the surface the humans, and the more irritating they are.
Is there something more dum than a light switch. You push on, the light open. You push off, the light close. It behave as expected and it is what we want. The day, the AI scientists will invent an intelligent light switch, this will be over. You will push on, sometime it will open and sometime it will not according to a unknown and smart algorithm and no one will be able to predict the behavior of the switch and we will have wish it was never invented. Vive AI!
Knowledge and logical rules work well only in an existing structure of information, where the rules of logic enable to navigate the domain for reasons to test for validity or truth in that domain. But outside of these fundamental machinery of thought for humans or computations for machines, is what we call imagination, which is only possible through the human mind. Although wisdom is more a result of rich experience and knowledge, it is more solid and has wider spectrum when empowered by imagination, which AI lacks.
Of course but less the subjective experience. Along with the syntax the semantics are also important for the wisdom to be experienced. We are still struggling with understanding this aspect in living beings and therefore it is difficult to code.
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Contzen
I am sure, the best decision is to join the best qualities of the computer and the researcher in a Hybrid Intellect system. This system should leave all regular work to the computer, but the creative part should be performed by the resercher. For this the computer should return intermediate results to the researcher in the most visual and informative mode, just to stimulate his/her creative work.
I am using this system to extract hidden parameters of molecular interactions from precise thermophysical databases.
Book Discovering the Cluster World
I think that human being is more intelligent that a system of artificial intelligence because a system depends of some principles but the man is learning all his life.
If something can be programmed then this is the demonstration that this something is stupid, just a recipee to be applied by a machine. Since in the human realm ''wisdom'' is opposited to ''stupidity'' then it can't be programmed. Saying otherwise is assuming that wisdom = stupidity, this would be stupid. Anyway, if something can be done through a stupid method, then it can be done by a machine and this is good new because we hate doing stupid tasks. The above reasoning is also the reason why AI is impossible in a litteral sense of truly be ''intelligence''. AI should be called AS : Artificial Stupidity. The art of creating good AS needs a lot of intelligence.
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