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Abductive Humanism: Comparative Advantages of Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition According to Logical Inference

Littlefield, William Joseph, II
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554480107736449

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2019, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, World Literature.
Speculation about artificial intelligence and big data has become commonplace. Foremost among these discussions is the potential for these technologies to displace the value of human labor. However, these discussions have become untethered from the history and development of the technologies in question. This paper analyzes paradigms of artificial intelligence to reveal that they are closely tied to different types of logical inference. The properties of computing machinery provide them with an advantage at deductive and inductive tasks when compared with human cognition. But, the understudied method of Peircean abduction poses several problems for computing machinery. Moreover, Peircean abduction, also called “creative abduction,” bears resemblance to important themes in the history of humanism. Human cognition handles the issues of Peircean abduction with remarkable ease, suggesting that humans will maintain a comparative advantage at this type of logical inference for the foreseeable future.
Florin Berindeanu (Committee Chair)
Richard Buchanan (Committee Member)
Mark Turner (Committee Member)
36 p.
Computer Science; Economics; Philosophy; Philosophy of Science; Sociology; Technology
artificial intelligence; AI; abduction; deep learning; deduction; induction; logical inference; comparative advantage; philosophy of technology; cognition; humanism; computing machinery; peirce; charles sanders peirce; computation

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  • Littlefield, II, W. J. (2019). Abductive Humanism: Comparative Advantages of Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition According to Logical Inference [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554480107736449

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Littlefield, II, William. Abductive Humanism: Comparative Advantages of Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition According to Logical Inference. 2019. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554480107736449.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Littlefield, II, William. "Abductive Humanism: Comparative Advantages of Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition According to Logical Inference." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1554480107736449

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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