{"id":13688,"date":"2023-07-30T09:36:51","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T09:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?p=13688"},"modified":"2022-05-05T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T09:38:45","slug":"ai-artificial-intuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/ai-artificial-intuition\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: Artificial Intuition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"AI: Artificial Intuition?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rh-negative-blood-and-people\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"zSQ2P4loq2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/the-role-of-intuition-in-the-generation-and-evaluation-stages-of-creativity\/\">Intuition is associated with both the idea generation and the idea evaluation phases of the creative problem-solving process<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Intuition is associated with both the idea generation and the idea evaluation phases of the creative problem-solving process&#8221; &#8212; The Rh Negative Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/the-role-of-intuition-in-the-generation-and-evaluation-stages-of-creativity\/embed\/#?secret=atdnT52nbH#?secret=zSQ2P4loq2\" data-secret=\"zSQ2P4loq2\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past 5 years or so, a few people have somewhat proudly said to me that they like to think of AI as artificial intuition. I\u2019ve nodded and pursed my lips in appreciation, although I\u2019ve written off the phrase because intuition is often such a terrible guide. But I\u2019ve been too quick to dismiss it. I think machine learning may be changing my mind about this\u2014not by giving me evidence and reasons, but by reshaping my (and perhaps&nbsp;our) model of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My failure to take the idea seriously&nbsp;enough comes proximally from my experience teaching philosophy of ethics. Moral intuitionism is one of the West\u2019s standard frameworks, although it doesn\u2019t get much love because we have such clear evidence of moral intuitions being disastrously wrong. A lot of racists have thought racism is intuitively obvious, and most of us think that taking care of our family in preference to strangers\u2014\u201cFamily first!\u201d\u2014is intuitively obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intuition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Intuitionism of this sort is&nbsp;offensive to most moral philosophy because intuitions have two primary characteristics. First, saying something is intuitive is saying that you can\u2019t\u2014or don\u2019t feel you need to\u2014provide reasons justifying it. But moral philosophy is all about discovering the sorts of reasons that justify moral decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second characteristic of intuition is expressed&nbsp;by the immortal line from Ring Lardner\u2019s short story, \u201cThe Young Immigrunts\u201d: \u201c\u2018Shut up,\u2019 he explained.\u201d Claiming something is intuitive shuts down the conversation before it begins, and no philosopher likes that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But neither of my examples are good ones. The racist will give you plenty of reasons why the object of their hatred deserves it: Those other people are lazy,&nbsp;or cheap, or smell bad. The parent who assumes that family comes first might tell you about the role they suppose family-centric ethics plays in evolution. Those might be good or bad reasons\u2014and I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say that the racist\u2019s reasons are bad\u2014but if the person can give you any reasons, then they don\u2019t think they\u2019re acting on intuition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I\u2019ve dismissed intuition on the basis of bad&nbsp;examples of it. Real cases&nbsp;of intuition aren\u2019t like that,&nbsp;and usually are far from pernicious. For example, someone might have an intuition&nbsp;that you&#8217;re a vegetarian,&nbsp;or an intuition that a third-grade class will respond&nbsp;well to a particular activity.&nbsp;These count as intuitions if the person can\u2019t put their finger on exactly what led them to those conclusions, but they have an internal sense that it\u2019s not just a guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could seem to be simple fuzzy or ungrounded thinking, but machine learning is giving us a different type of model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the output from machine learning models is both correct and inexplicable. There are a number of related types of machine learning\u00a0inexplicability, but a common one is the multidimensional\u00a0nature of the relationships it finds. In a one-dimensional relationship, you\u2019re comparing things according to a single property: The paints are either water- or oil-based. If you&#8217;re simultaneously comparing them in terms of price, color, wall coverage, customer ratings, manufacturer, and how much they\u2019ll glare, you&#8217;re putting them in a multidimensional relationship. Machine learning doesn&#8217;t care how many dimensions it needs in order to usefully sort matters out or to make accurate predictions. It will happily consider millions of dimensions if the machine has enough power. Try wrapping your puny earthling brain around a million-dimensional model!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kmworld.com\/Articles\/Columns\/Perspective-on-Knowledge\/Artificial-intuition-152557.aspx\">https:\/\/www.kmworld.com\/Articles\/Columns\/Perspective-on-Knowledge\/Artificial-intuition-152557.aspx<br><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"AI: Artificial Intuition?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"AI: Artificial Intuition?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>Over the past 5 years or so, a few people have somewhat proudly said to me that they like to think of AI as artificial intuition. I\u2019ve nodded and pursed my lips in appreciation, although I\u2019ve written off the phrase because intuition is often such a terrible guide. But I\u2019ve been too quick to dismiss it. I think machine learning may be changing my mind about this\u2014not by giving me evidence and reasons, but by reshaping my (and perhaps&nbsp;our) model of knowledge. My failure to take the idea seriously&nbsp;enough comes proximally from my experience teaching philosophy of ethics. 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