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kestrellLJ user tasha18 and I were exchanging some comments regarding
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Ted Chiang
http://www.subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/
and she mentioned that she found it strange that the AI in the story could obviously learn, but their use of a kind of pidgin English never progressed to the kidn of language they exchanged with the people with whom they had relationships.
I myself found the statement that the AI never learned to read because no one ever read bedtime stories to them when they were "children" immensely odd, as I never had anyone read to me as a child and yet I turned out to be something of a bookworm, and I'm certain I am not the only example of this.
It seems as if, in the case of language, Chiang is implying that AI can't learn because they can't change how they are programmed to speak, yet, in regard to reading, Chiang seems to switch to implying that reading is culturally learned.
Can anyone comment on Chiang's reasoning for his depictions of learning in this story? Is it connected to real theories regarding learning and/or AI?
"The Lifecycle of Software Objects" by Ted Chiang
http://www.subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/fall-2010/fiction-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects-by-ted-chiang/
and she mentioned that she found it strange that the AI in the story could obviously learn, but their use of a kind of pidgin English never progressed to the kidn of language they exchanged with the people with whom they had relationships.
I myself found the statement that the AI never learned to read because no one ever read bedtime stories to them when they were "children" immensely odd, as I never had anyone read to me as a child and yet I turned out to be something of a bookworm, and I'm certain I am not the only example of this.
It seems as if, in the case of language, Chiang is implying that AI can't learn because they can't change how they are programmed to speak, yet, in regard to reading, Chiang seems to switch to implying that reading is culturally learned.
Can anyone comment on Chiang's reasoning for his depictions of learning in this story? Is it connected to real theories regarding learning and/or AI?
