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Tag: Abduction

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At Mind Matters News: Abduction: A thinking skill you can do but computers can’t

Fahsing point outs that criminal investigations are generally abductive rather than deductive. “Try to eliminate as many explanations or lines of inquiry as you can. Just like in science, theories can be truly tested only through falsification.”

Posted on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
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William Dembski: Why computers will likely never perform abductive inferences

Computers require complete data to come to a correct conclusion but humans often work very well with incomplete data.

Posted on April 24, 2021 Author News Comments(3)
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At Academic Influence: Jed Macosko interviews Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

Larson explains what he hopes to convey to the reader about the limitations of Really Big Computers.

Posted on April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 Author News Comments(4)
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Computer guy/philosopher: AI can’t do abductive reasoning

Abduction is the kind of reasoning ID uses.

Posted on October 11, 2019October 11, 2019 Author News Comments(2)

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