tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716509980377809016.post8834749328099284665..comments2024-03-11T10:20:01.582-07:00Comments on The Rehearsal Studio: Putting the Machine in its Proper PlaceStephen Smoliarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14689767135234237242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716509980377809016.post-7710477413296214712010-02-08T10:23:29.176-08:002010-02-08T10:23:29.176-08:00The great bane of artificial intelligence research...The great bane of artificial intelligence research has always been public relations. I would take that scope of "decades" to encompass the rise of expert systems, most (probably all) of whhich are grounded in man-machine interactions, not just in how they are used but in how their respective knowledge bases are constructed. However, to draw upon my own terminology, the technology of expert systems is thoroughly noun-based, even when we include efforts that tried to incorporate temporal logic. The shortcomings of that foundation were identified and analyzed at great length by Lucy Suchman in <i>Plans and Situated Actions</i>, whose subtitle, <i>The Problem of Human-Machine Communication</i>, gets to the heart of the matter (and emphasizes the flaw in my own choice of words). Expert systems can go a long way in managing transactions with data resources, but they fall short when it comes to the communicative actions that take place among human experts. To invoke the language of <a href="http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2009/11/inconvenient-truths-about-health-care.html" rel="nofollow"><br />Jerome Groopman</a>, a medical expert system tries to be a valuable resources for "what doctors know;" but, when it comes to getting the job done effectively, "what doctors do" depends much more heavily on "how doctors think." We need a bit more truth in advertising when it comes to identifying the shortcomings of technology in supporting that latter practice!Stephen Smoliarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14689767135234237242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-716509980377809016.post-68613426039052898372010-02-08T08:04:15.096-08:002010-02-08T08:04:15.096-08:00Thus, Kasparov's proposition should be taken a...<i>Thus, Kasparov's proposition should be taken as a plea for a paradigm shift among those committed to research in artificial intelligence. The shift involves setting aside the Holy Grail of the autonomously intelligent machine in favor of the less glamorous pursuit of more effective problem solving and decision making through man-machine interactions.</i><br /><br />You might want to actually do some research on what the artificial intelligence community has been doing for <i>decades</i> now. This isn't a new idea. The artificial intelligence research community got there long ago. But, as you say, it's not quite so glamorous.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com