Abstract
Central scholars in AI have argued for extending the search for new AI technology beyond the tried-and-tested biologically and mathematically-inspired algorithms. Following in their footsteps, areas in the humanities are introduced as possible inspirations for novel human-like AI. Topics discussed include play-acting, literature as the field researching both imagination and metaphors, linguistics, music, and hermeneutics. In our ambition to reach general intelligence, we cannot afford to ignore these avenues of research.
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The song is “Little does she know” by “The Kursaal Flyers”. Thanks to Blay Whitby for pointing this out in private conversation.
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Freed, S. (2020). AGI Needs the Humanities. In: Goertzel, B., Panov, A., Potapov, A., Yampolskiy, R. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12177. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52152-3_11
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