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Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)

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red75prime · 1790574076 · focus · HN ↗
It reminds me of "At the time we drew boxes labeled 'perception', 'cognition' with arrows between them." An imprecise quote that I can't place.
I guess my box labelled 'subconsciousness' is trying to say that low-level mechanisms that give rise to the observed cognitive phenomena might have nothing to do with neat boxes.
1. bananaflag · 1790575438 · focus · HN ↗
  You mean "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity" by Drew McDermott
  <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340" rel="nofollow">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340
  1. arethuza · 1790583172 · focus · HN ↗
    McDermott's A Critique of Pure Reason pretty much captured all of the misgivings I had about "Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence", which was slightly unfortunate as I was trying to complete a PhD in that very area at the time (around 1990 or so...)
    bananaflag · 1790587168 · focus · HN ↗
    Did you complete it?
    arethuza · 1790600817 · focus · HN ↗
    No - there were lots of other interesting things going on in the early 90s that I managed to pivot to. Never regretted not completing as I had given up any desire to work in academia by that point.
2. CipherText · 1790581700 · focus · HN ↗
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3. Phemist · 1790592346 · focus · HN ↗
  Donald Broadbent drew a lot of boxes in the 50s/60s (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbent's_filter_model_of_attention" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbent's_filter_model_of_at...). There have been plenty of critics of this tendency, I recall some calling it 'boxology' rather than psychology.

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