Meta “programmed it to simply not answer questions,” but it did anyway.
A syllogism is a tool for theoretical reasoning that doesn’t actually apply in the real world, because it relies on Boolean possibility spaces. There is never an “all articles by X are correct”, and there is no theoretical possibility that “all articles by X are correct” in the real world. The connections in the real world are literally always probabilistic. In every case. Every time.
You can’t use formal logic for any real world use case because there are no valid starting assumptions. The only thing logic can ever prove is internal consistency, not fact.
The only thing logic can ever prove is internal consistency, not fact.
Yes, and being able to build structures with internal consistency would be an advantage.
Nobody says you can prevent any “AI” oracle from saying things that aren’t true.
But a tool which would generate a tree of possible logical conclusions from something given in language and then divided into statements on objects with statistical dependencies could be useful.
