Philosophy, AI, and the power of language: how AI requires a philosophical understanding of modal logic. From the article:

For years, movies and shows have offered examples of radical futures where technology reacts to gestures and commands. But now, this very old vision is beginning to come into fruition in the form of artificial intelligence.

Considering the accuracy of math and science, many people believe only these subjects are needed to understand which ideas can have real-world applications. However, philosophy is our means of initially coming to those ideas. 

Philosophy is not only useful in our AI conversations due to the ethical dilemmas that surround AI, but also useful in logically proving which concepts can be translated into computer science and mathematical algorithms….

How is it concluded that it’s possible to make artificial intelligence in the ways it is imagined to be? Are scientists able to define some kind of behavior as a concept accurately enough to be translated into algorithms?

These are questions that began in philosophy and are asked by philosophers and scientists tackling the frame problem, which analyses the difficulty to have precise predictive power of the action of a word. 

h/t The Enlightened Robot Daily