Phenomenology: the Next AI wave

How the science of phenomena can help AI with the next cognitive exploration.

Rodrigo Salvaterra
Towards Data Science
4 min readFeb 6, 2020

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Edmund Husserl, the father of Phenomenology. Source: literariness.org

If you ought to explain what a table is, you would be surprised how difficult it can be, especially if you are talking to a computer. The next breakthrough on AI will be exactly that — bringing phenomenology to AI. We can try to define a table as follows:

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