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Good news for artificial intelligence. Computers are a lot better at trial and error than "thinking" through a solution.
by JDDunn9 11y ago
Good news for artificial intelligence. Computers are a lot better at trial and error than "thinking" through a solution.
- grondilu 11y agoI also thought of AI while reading this title. Many people assess that strong AI will not be possible until will figure out how the brain works. Yet it's very much possible that we create a machine that exhibits human-like behavior before we understand how it works.
- raverbashing 11y agoTrial and error exists, it's called 'genetic programming'
- rational-future 11y agoThe trial in genetic programming is too random, compared to what a human researcher would try.
- chongli 11y agoDoesn't this tear down the entire premise of the article? "Just trial & error" dismisses all the thought that goes into designing experiments and analyzing the data.
- nitrogen 11y agoHuman trial and error is more like a hill-climbing algorithm or a localized graph search algorithm, things which computers can do quite well.
- zo1 11y agoYou'd be surprised at how directed forces applied to "random" values yields surprising solutions.
- jgome 11y agoWe only need a way to tell the computer "hey, this random result/behavior could be useful for this and/or that specific purpose!"...