Machines Can’t Understand

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Artificial intelligence can predict physical events, but does it understand the world through experience like humans do?

Humans understand the physical world with ease. However, we rarely stop to consider how we acquired it. We go about our lives, surrounded by objects whose behaviour we have learned to anticipate.

Artificial intelligence is good at anticipating things, too. If we ask a chatbot what happens when a glass is knocked off a table, it will give you a sensible answer. It might explain gravity, describe the glass’s trajectory and predict that it will break on impact. A robot with advanced predictive capabilities might even prevent the accident. But does the machine know what it is talking about?



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