How Two Ancient Greeks Created Modern AI (Without Knowing It)
At the heart of both philosophy and computer science lies a single, crucial question: How do we build a model of the world? Plato and Aristotle approached this question from completely opposite directions, and their answers map almost perfectly onto modern programming and machine learning approaches. Plato’s Perfect Forms in Your Code Plato believed everything we see is an imperfect copy of a perfect, unchanging form. Take a circle you draw on paper, according to Plato, it’s just an imperfect representation of a perfect circle that exists as an abstract form, with exact mathematical properties no physical circle can fully achieve. ...