According to Wikipedia and many business articles (eg, Forbes), there are 5 criteria for effective goal-setting: (1) Specific, (2) Measurable, (3) Achievable, (4) Relevance, and (5) Time-based. Goals are omni-present in our lives (eg, home, school, sports, work).
How do we – or Artificial Intelligence (AI) – determine that relevance??
My answer would be: I know it when I see it. I doubt that I can explain it any other – logical or rational – way. This probably also explains the complexity of relevance, whether for humans or AI.
Example: in the 1990s, I visited my audit team to check on their progress. They claimed that everything was fine. I reviewed the draft Financial Statements (FS). Everything indeed looked fine, apart from the most important FS item: Work in Progress (WiP). Immediately, I realised that we had a huge problem. Ultimately, management was fired for hiding huge losses by falsifying the FS.
The complexity issue is related to the interconnectedness of everything in life, nature, and the Universe. Once interconnectedness is broken, or fails logic, or does no longer feel rational then relevance suddenly becomes relevant.
In my view, interconnectedness is a principle in life, nature, and the Universe. Please also see my 2023 blog and its diagram: Theory of Everything (3). Hence, I believe in interconnectedness and its “existence” is always on my mind.
Notwithstanding the above, interconnectedness is a (philosophical) belief system. Beliefs are known unknowns: we know that we do not know but we still believe. I doubt that our beliefs (should) belong in AI.
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
A quote from The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (1842) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)
Relevance (2017) by Fairchild (Republic)
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Note: all markings (bold, italic, underlining) by LO unless in quotes or stated otherwise.
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