TOK
The following concerns a discussion of the TOK, or Theory of Knowledge, behind this subject.
Would an Artificial Intelligent program truly be able to know, and to what extent would it be able to know?
Things to take into account:
The known areas oh knowledge may have to be considered undefined. This is because, even if the said computer program would be able to emulate knowing what "History" actually is, it would, in my opinion, be false knowledge as it wouldn't be able to easily identify, or even change its own definition of "History." The areas of knowledge would therefore be assumed, and not be truly known.
In this specific case, the ways of knowing would have to be limited to only language and reason. Even in this case, language would be limited to only a few simple sentence types - enough to be able to absorb some amount of the currently undefined "knowledge." In terms of reason, I assume that syllogism-based reasoning would be sufficient.
Remember, this is being developed simply to the point of being able to suggest that a computer might be able to demonstrate the ability to know. Is is NOT an emulation of a human brain. It is only given enough capabilities to communicate its knowledge that it has acquired with a human.
Knowledge Issues
- What would allow a program to know?
- Assuming it can "know":
- Would it be considered real knowledge?
- Would it be trustworthy knowledge?
- How trustworthy would it be?
- Missing the elements of emotion and other human traits, would you trust it with simple and serious issues?
- Would you trust it with your life?
- Would its "idea" of knowledge be incomplete without other areas of knowledge humans are more or less born with?
- Would a mentally retarded person not have the knowledge capacities since they might be missing one or more areas of knowledge?
- Would this then mean that our own idea of knowledge is itself incomplete?
This topic basically branches out into a discussion concerning the validity of our own knowledge. However, going any further in my opinion would be off topic.