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Category: Wisdom

Multi-agent Question-answering Systems

Introduction Agents representing ideological stances, positions, perspectives, or schools of thought can serve in multi-agent systems which generate encyclopedic answers to end-users' complex questions. Agent Design, Reuse and Selection Large language models can generate content while role-playing, or impersonating, characters and personas (Shanahan, McDonell, & Reynolds, 2023). They can be fine-tuned using the works of […]

The Recommendation of Advice and Wisdom

Introduction Wise people share advice and wisdom in the forms of allegories, anecdotes, aphorisms, apologues, fables, folklore, historical analogues, jokes, literature, lyrics, parables, poems, proverbs, quotations, stories, and witticisms. It is a multidisciplinary challenge to build artificial intelligence systems capable of these tasks. Towards solving this challenge, a new approach is presented: story-based search and […]

Narrative, Reflection and Wisdom

Cognitive Narratology Stories of Wisdom to Live by: Developing Wisdom in a Narrative Mode by Michel Ferrari, Nic M. Weststrate and Anda Petro, The Science of Stories: An Introduction to Narrative Psychology by János László, Narratology as a Cognitive Science by David Herman, Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences by David Herman, The Cognitive Turn […]

Artificial Wisdom

Introduction Wisdom: Its Nature, Origins, and Development edited by Robert J. Sternberg, People Nominated as Wise: A Comparative Study of Wisdom-related Knowledge by Paul B. Baltes, Ursula M. Staudinger, Andreas Maercker and Jacqui Smith, Defining and Assessing Wisdom: A Review of the Literature by Katherine J. Bangen, Thomas W. Meeks and Dilip V. Jeste, What […]

Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Philosophy

Philosophy Teaching Philosophy: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Suggestions edited by Tziporah Kasachkoff, Teaching Philosophy edited by Andrea Kenkmann and Teaching Philosophy: A Guide by Steven M. Cahn. GlossaryOutline of PhilosophyPhilosophyPhilosophy Education History of Philosophy A History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston, Lectures on the History of Philosophy by Georg W. F. Hegel, A Short History […]