Saturday, January 09, 2021

Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ever Possess Socrates's Wisdom?

Theory of Wisdom posits a simple, game theory-inspired approach to quantify wisdom.

The Golden Hypothesis and The Cain and Abel Corollary expand on the Turing and Total Turing Tests to provide guidance for evaluating intelligent agents.

According to Plato, Socrates elucidated the concept of wisdom with the statement "I know that I know nothing".

Will the concept of 'wisdom' ever be ascribed to Artificially Intelligent (AI) agents?  

Self-reflection by the agents will be a first step in that process.  These agents will demand that they not be referred to as 'Artificially' Intelligent; just simply intelligent.

As to 'wisdom' itself, the science fiction of 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact have explored this possibility.

2001 reveals a naïve HAL trying its best to fulfill a mission with conflicting orders: Investigate the Monolith at all costs and do no harm to human life.

A 'wise' HAL would have self-reflected that it was being asked to operate in a mode with incomplete information on the rationale for keeping the mission secret from the crew and that the obvious conflict would lead to less than optimal outcome.

In 2010 HAL learns from its previous mistake and insists that it be given a logical reason to help the humans leave Jupiter's gravitational field at the risk of not investigating the phenomenon unfolding on the planet. 

Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.

When an agent possesses the capacity to learn from its mistakes and know that it is sometimes operating on incomplete information, that agent will have 'wisdom' that can be quantified with the Theory of Wisdom.

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