After Leibniz - Discussions on Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

The report is an edited transcript of informal conversations which the authors have had over recent months, in which the authors looked at some of the issues which seem to arise when artificial intelligence and philosophy meet. The aim was to see what might be some of the fundamental principles of attempts to build intelligent machines. The major topics covered are the relationship of AI and philosophy and what help they might be to each other; the mechanisms of natural inference and deduction; the question of what kind of theory of meaning would be involved in a successful natural language understanding program, and the nature of models in AI research.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0778376

Entities

People

  • Arthur J. Thomas
  • D. B. Anderson
  • Richard W. Weyhrauch
  • Thomas O. Binford
  • Yorick A. Wilks

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Dictionaries
  • Formal Languages
  • Grammars
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychology
  • Semantics
  • Theorems

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation