Understanding Is a Process

How do we gauge understanding? Tests of understanding, such as Turing's imitation game, are numerous; yet, attempts to achieve a state of understanding are not satisfactory assessments. Intelligent agents designed to pass one test of understanding often fall short of others. Rather than approac...

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Autores principales: Blaha, Leslie M., Abrams, Mitchell, Bibyk, Sarah A., Bonial, Claire, Hartzler, Beth M., Hsu, Christopher D., Khemlani, Sangeet, King, Jayde, St. Amant, Robert, Trafton, J. Gregory, Wong, Rachel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9008134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35431820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.800280
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author Blaha, Leslie M.
Abrams, Mitchell
Bibyk, Sarah A.
Bonial, Claire
Hartzler, Beth M.
Hsu, Christopher D.
Khemlani, Sangeet
King, Jayde
St. Amant, Robert
Trafton, J. Gregory
Wong, Rachel
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St. Amant, Robert
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description How do we gauge understanding? Tests of understanding, such as Turing's imitation game, are numerous; yet, attempts to achieve a state of understanding are not satisfactory assessments. Intelligent agents designed to pass one test of understanding often fall short of others. Rather than approaching understanding as a system state, in this paper, we argue that understanding is a process that changes over time and experience. The only window into the process is through the lens of natural language. Usefully, failures of understanding reveal breakdowns in the process. We propose a set of natural language-based probes that can be used to map the degree of understanding a human or intelligent system has achieved through combinations of successes and failures.
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spelling pubmed-90081342022-04-15 Understanding Is a Process Blaha, Leslie M. Abrams, Mitchell Bibyk, Sarah A. Bonial, Claire Hartzler, Beth M. Hsu, Christopher D. Khemlani, Sangeet King, Jayde St. Amant, Robert Trafton, J. Gregory Wong, Rachel Front Syst Neurosci Neuroscience How do we gauge understanding? Tests of understanding, such as Turing's imitation game, are numerous; yet, attempts to achieve a state of understanding are not satisfactory assessments. Intelligent agents designed to pass one test of understanding often fall short of others. Rather than approaching understanding as a system state, in this paper, we argue that understanding is a process that changes over time and experience. The only window into the process is through the lens of natural language. Usefully, failures of understanding reveal breakdowns in the process. We propose a set of natural language-based probes that can be used to map the degree of understanding a human or intelligent system has achieved through combinations of successes and failures. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9008134/ /pubmed/35431820 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.800280 Text en Copyright © 2022 Blaha, Abrams, Bibyk, Bonial, Hartzler, Hsu, Khemlani, King, St. Amant, Trafton and Wong. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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St. Amant, Robert
Trafton, J. Gregory
Wong, Rachel
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