Has science started to go wrong?

Has science started to go wrong?

Did Something Go Wrong?

The premise of this symposium seems to be that something went wrong with AI. Otherwise things would be better. What would be better isn't stated. From my point of view what would have been decisively better is to have achieved human-level AI. However, I suspect some people of being disappointed that the AI companies didn't make enough money. Here are some considerations. 1. Understanding intell...

Where Did Mally Go Wrong?

In 1926, Ernst Mally proposed the first system of deontic logic. His system turned out to be unacceptable. How can it be repaired? We discuss several proposals to reformulate it in terms of strict implication, relevant implication and strict relevant implication.

Offshoring: What Can Go Wrong?

tens of thousands of miles from the home base—a client in the US offshoring IT work to a vendor in India or China, for example. Can it be done well? Offshoring has recently sustained much criticism, mainly over the issue of whether shipping IT work abroad is good for the US as a whole. I have written in that context as well, but my focus here is at the company level. Does it benefit a US firm t...

Monte Carlo Go Has a Way to Go

Monte Carlo Go is a promising method to improve the performance of computer Go programs. This approach determines the next move to play based on many Monte Carlo samples. This paper examines the relative advantages of additional samples and enhancements for Monte Carlo Go. By parallelizing Monte Carlo Go, we could increase sample sizes by two orders of magnitude. Experimental results obtained i...