Stephen Downes

This is a nice set of presentation slides, written by Gamma.app, probably at the instigation of Michael Peters. You could just skip it if you won't look at AI-generated content, but I think you'd be missing out. If you're not familiar with Wittgenstein, especially with respect to how his work bears on AI, it's a great introduction. If you are familiar with his work, and in particular Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein on rules, then you're missing out on the opportunity to see how the AI has missed both the background for Kripke's reading and the criticisms of the 'Wittgenstein as sceptic' approach. Wittgenstein uses the word 'rule', but the idea that a rule expresses some sort of negotiated social agreement of a binding or normative principle would, in my view, be mistaken.