Epistemic status: shaky. Offered because a quick answer is often better than a completely reliable one.
An ontology is a comprehensive account of reality.
The field of AI uses the term to refer to the “binding” of the AI’s map of reality to the territory. If the AI for example ends up believing that the internet is reality and all this talk of physics and galaxies and such is just a conversational ploy for one faction on the internet to gain status relative to another faction, the AI has an ontological failure.
ADDED. A more realistic example would be the AI’s confusing its internal representation of the thing to be optimized with the thing the programmers hoped the AI would optimize. Maybe I’m not the right person to answer because it is extremely unlikely I’d ever use the word ontology in a conversation about AI.
Epistemic status: shaky. Offered because a quick answer is often better than a completely reliable one.
An ontology is a comprehensive account of reality.
The field of AI uses the term to refer to the “binding” of the AI’s map of reality to the territory. If the AI for example ends up believing that the internet is reality and all this talk of physics and galaxies and such is just a conversational ploy for one faction on the internet to gain status relative to another faction, the AI has an ontological failure.
ADDED. A more realistic example would be the AI’s confusing its internal representation of the thing to be optimized with the thing the programmers hoped the AI would optimize. Maybe I’m not the right person to answer because it is extremely unlikely I’d ever use the word ontology in a conversation about AI.
So epistemic means: confidence of knowing?
Yes, the “epistemic status” is me telling you how confident I am.