Excellent analysis. This is the kind of discussion I was looking for.
Note that it is necessary to do empirical science before inventive science becomes possible. Engineering depends almost completely on knowledge of physical laws. So a plausible diagnosis of the cause of the limited progress in AI, is that it’s an attempt to do invention before the relevant empirical science has become available.
Historically, invention often, maybe usually, precedes the science that describes it. Thermodynamics grew out of steam engines, not the other way around, and the same for transistors in the fifties, for two examples off the top of my head. I suspect it is because the technology provides a simpler and clearer example of the relevant science than natural examples. And the development of empirical sciences are useful to the further development of the technologies.
Excellent analysis. This is the kind of discussion I was looking for.
Note that it is necessary to do empirical science before inventive science becomes possible. Engineering depends almost completely on knowledge of physical laws. So a plausible diagnosis of the cause of the limited progress in AI, is that it’s an attempt to do invention before the relevant empirical science has become available.
Historically, invention often, maybe usually, precedes the science that describes it. Thermodynamics grew out of steam engines, not the other way around, and the same for transistors in the fifties, for two examples off the top of my head. I suspect it is because the technology provides a simpler and clearer example of the relevant science than natural examples. And the development of empirical sciences are useful to the further development of the technologies.