There's a lot to agree with in this post, starting with the assertion that we should step back from the pro- and anti-AI camps and look at this whole thing more reasonable. AI is an incredible field to study not because it will produce robot teachers but because it has the potential to provide genuine insight into how we learn and who we are. But we'll get there only if we adopt a scientific stance, but a facile misinterpretation of Hume and depiction of "experiment as a thoroughly rational and cognitive operation - which it almost certainly is not." No, "scientists are engaged in something much more subtle when doing experiments. Science is really a 'dance with nature'." Quite right. Quite right.
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