Especially for Matt (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 14:35 (5198 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 14:51

I loved the poem in this piece. AI is a pipe dream, as Penrose wrote in "The Emperor's New Mind".
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> http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/computational-intelligence-and-darwin... -Working in some proximity to the field, only stating that we can't do it is a pipe dream. -Kasparov stormed out of a chess match when Deep Blue did an amazingly "human" thing: It judged that its position was absolutely impervious, and instead of playing ahead assuming Kasparov saw the draw, wasted a move by just moving its king. The result: Kasparov was screaming that there was no way he was playing against a machine. The limits in the program from the blogger, are the limits built into the machine by its author. [EDIT] If Kasparov couldn't tell he was playing a machine at that point, what does it tell you about the machine? [EDIT]-Or note the post I just posted that shows a long-term research project where a machine (starting as a blank slate and only some high-level "needs") learns how to read human emotion and carry on "conversations" on an emotional level. -The key here is that the author here assumes that Artificial Intelligence programming follows even the same rules as what's done for a game: This is NOT the case. Chess starts out simply, gets chaotic in the middle, but the endgame is simpler than the beginning. (In most cases.) In the beginning and the end there just isn't as many combinations to think about. (Only 22 valid moves in the beginning, -Even in game AI--there's some imperative programming. AI programming is exactly the opposite: it's experiential in nature. The machine literally learns. You teach it its boundaries--you don't program them in place. True AI programming is alien to anyone who's written any other kind of code; that's why I won't write it off as garbage as you do.-[EDIT] As for the poem, a version of it gets passed around in college all the time. As you are aware of the Turing test, just this year AI researchers got close enough that they're starting to prepare a harder Turing test. The post about emotional intelligence above is one step towards human-use of language. The thinking of the blogger is simply not up to the current state of the field, and he's being romantic.[EDIT]

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