Quelle est cette odeur agréable ? Is that lovely fragrance flowing from a yeast extract spread that some British people seem to like so much? Rather not. It may come from the brandy of your hot Christmas pudding. It certainly does not come from data because data do not smell anything. Sensations help to realise that something matters to us. They may sometimes seem misleading. The fact is that we may sometimes misunderstand what we correctly feel. This is why experience and experimentation matter.1
As you know, IA may help to notice signs of fraud but is useless when it comes to establish wether a fraudulent conduct took place in a given matter because spotting fraud requires to rely on instincts.2. The same comment can be made about the date of a will that is a formal issue.3 As you know, lawyers rely on context that is at least partially felt.4 Similarly, no issue regarding possession, including matters involving artificial intelligence can be solved without relying on instincts.5. It is true that any issue that on a partially instinctive analysis could be decomposed in several processes that could be performed by computers.6 This is what open data and open source may lead to.7 Nevertheless, heavy processes do not always make attractive products.8 What you like your Christmas turkey to be heavily processed on its way from the oven to your mouth?
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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See Knowledge and experience in artificial intelligence. See also L’expérience, une broutille ? in French. ↩
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See Sorting apples or turning homes into castles, esp. at 2.1. ↩
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See Heavy and soft, esp. at 2.1. ↩