Re: Linguistics for the Age of AI

Thank you for sharing
It would be great to highlight the relevance and impact on AI KR

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 2:05 PM Amirouche BOUBEKKI <amirouche@hyper.dev>
wrote:

> I just started reading the book.
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> There is already several ideas that I took for granted (fwiw), in my
> previous work like:
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> A) AI agents must be interactive, it reads as action-oriented in the book,
> quote:
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> > Our model of NLU does not require that agents exhaustively interpret
> every input to an externally imposed standard of perfection. Even  people
> don’t do that. Instead, agents operating in human-agent teams need to
> understand inputs to the degree required to determine which goals, plans,
> and actions they should pursue as a result of NLU
>
> B) The importance of explainable AI, quote:
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> > The importance of explainable AI cannot be overstated: society at large
> is unlikely to cede important decision-making in domains like health care
> or finance to machines that cannot explain their advice.
>
> I highly recommend to read the introduction entitled 'Setting the Stage':
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> https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/chapter-pdf/1891673/9780262363136_f000100.pdf
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> The whole book is open-access pdf available at:
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>   https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5042/Linguistics-for-the-Age-of-AI
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