Posts from July 2019

Turing tests in Chinese rooms: What does it mean for AI to outperform humans

by Dominik Lukeš · 2019-07-23

TLDR; Reports that AI beat humans on certain benchmarks or very specialised tasks don’t mean that AI is actually better at those tasks than any individual human. They certainly don’t mean that AI is approaching the task with any of the same understanding of the world people do. People actually perform 100% on the tasks…

Fruit loops and metaphors: Metaphors are not about explaining the abstract through concrete but about the dynamic process of negotiated sensemaking

by Dominik Lukeš · 2019-07-14

Note: This is a slightly edited version of a post that first appeared on Medium . It elaborates and exemplifies examples I gave in the more recent posts on metaphor and explanation and understanding . One of the less fortunate consequences of the popularity of the conceptual metaphor paradigm (which is also the one I…