2023/02/03 by Piero Molino, Jacopo Tagliabue, Molino, Piero +1 · 2 voices
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications #cs.AI #cs.CL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2302.01570
openalex publication_date 2023/02/03 · arxiv published 2023/02/03 · arxiv updated 2023/02/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We examine how much of the contemporary progress in artificial intelligence (and, specifically, in natural language processing), can be, more or less directly, traced back to the seminal work and ideas of the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, with particular focus on his late views. Discussing Wittgenstein's original theses will give us the chance to survey the state of artificial intelligence, and comment on both its strengths and weaknesses. A similar text appeared first in Spanish as a chapter of CENTENARIO DEL SILENCIO (2021), a book celebrating 100 years since the publication of the Tractatus.