Big AI Into the Narrow Alley

“One of his early mathematics papers explores the reliability of certain algorithms that would later be central to computations for things like the PageRank algorithm, on which Google’s search engine is based.

“Toward the end of “Intelligent Machinery” Turing includes ruminations on search and thought. He writes, “Intellectual activity consists mainly of various kinds of search.

“Turing argues that the search process is central to epistemological and scientific discovery, and important in framing as well as pursuing mathematical, genetic, cultural, and intellectual problems. More precisely, perhaps he is outlining how his own mind works.

Am I doing a search when I am looking at a Rausch?

Right, we have to start someplace and go with whatever we have. But is that what is meant by searching? Is he perhaps mindful of this proces called “seeking?”

I am reminded of this thing called the “trance-derivational search.”

† Dan Rockmore – https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/imitation-game-alan-turing 6 November 14