The Relationship Between Theology, Philosophy and Science: an Eastern Christian Perspective

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The Relationship Between Theology, Philosophy and Science: an Eastern Christian Perspective
Coordinators: Adrian LEMENI, Adrian Sorin MIHALACHE
Editura basilica, Bucuresti – 2021
Translators: Maria BANCILA, Gianina Elena ROMAN
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Extras/ II.4.3/ pp. 151-152 Challenges in understanding the natural language
One difficulty faced in the attempt to develop AI – a difficulty reminiscent of the Tower of Babel episode – is what I term „the compexity sindrome”: In their desire to imitate God, if we considere the religious perspective, the AI constructors reach a point of combinatorial explosion when the computer programs  have to select one possibility among the many that characterize  life’s complexity, while their choice leads to further choices depending on it, and so on; as a result, the number of possible combinations increases exponentially. This is a difficulty posed, among others, by problems rapidly solved by man, such as the understanding of the natural language. The symbolic approaches undertaken in understanding the human language employ techniques based on „unification”, that is, on the search for two symbolic configurations which can become identical, by operating some particularizations. These techniques usually lead to combinatorial explosions with prevent their largescale application. Computer’s understanding of natural language is hindered by multiple ambiguities, at various levels: lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic.
We might assert that man is endowed with a „filter” allowing rapid choices, and with a „sense” of coherence as well, both of wich have never been replicated artificially despite all efforts.