Anyone who has kids and teaches them things will know AI learns and ‘understands’ very differently.
I can say something like ‘a tiger is just a lion with stripes’ to a 3 year old and they now ‘understand’ what a tiger is almost as well as if they saw a picture of one. They could definitely identify one from a picture now.
This kind of understanding won’t work with an AI because we don’t understand what characteristics it has latched into when identifying a lion. For all we know it’s that the background of each lion image its been trained on has a blue sky. Or the tigers are all looking at the camera.
I think the ability to pick apart what you know and learn new things by reasoning about that knowledge is the key to if understanding is taking place.
I can say something like ‘a tiger is just a lion with stripes’ to a 3 year old and they now ‘understand’ what a tiger is almost as well as if they saw a picture of one. They could definitely identify one from a picture now.
This kind of understanding won’t work with an AI because we don’t understand what characteristics it has latched into when identifying a lion. For all we know it’s that the background of each lion image its been trained on has a blue sky. Or the tigers are all looking at the camera.
I think the ability to pick apart what you know and learn new things by reasoning about that knowledge is the key to if understanding is taking place.