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by farleykr 491 days ago
I mentioned this in one of my other comments but even if AI figures this out where humans can't, I think this will involve coming to the conclusion that there really is an objective, knowable truth at the core of the universe or at least a set of tools will be developed for better discerning what that truth is. Even if you're talking about knowing who someone's spouse is, I'm not convinced we can ever teach a machine how you know what is true unless we're willing to have some sort of basic tenet of what truth is or how to discern it.
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That was the last generation of AI attempts: things like Cyc https://cyc.com/ , trying to turn all of human knowledge into a really big database of predicate logic.