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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
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Subject: Aah, but not in the fire brigade, jazz ensembles, rowing eights,...
Keywords: I should too :-)
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Subject: Aah, but not in the fire brigade, jazz ensembles, rowing eights,...
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In article <5499@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu.UUCP (Stephen Smoliar) writes:
>The problem comes in deciding
>WHAT needs to be explicitly articulated and what can be left in the "implicit
>background."  That is a problem which we, as humans, seem to deal with rather
>poorly, which is why there is so much yeeling and hitting in the world.
Is this science? :-)
Or is this a problem commonly encountered amongst intellectuals for
whom explicit verbal communication becomes a deskilling modus vivendi?

Is anyone in AI working on listening and watching?

For people who haven't spent all their life in academia or
intellectual work, there will be countless examples of carrying out
work in near 100% implicit background (watch fire and ambulance
personelle who've worked together as a team for ages, watch a basketball
team, a steeplejack and his mate, a good jazz ensemble, ...)

There are ways of determining the distribution of skills in the human
population and the effect of training and experience on skill attainment.
I hope AI researchers are aware of them, and the results, before they dive
head first into skill acquisition programs (unless they're engineers into
machine learning, in which case go where the spirit takes you).

One of these days I'll see an AI posting being generous to human abilities.