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Someone once gave the analogy of climbing to the moon. You can report steady progress until you get to the top of the tree/mountain. I think this is applicable
by theideasmith 11y ago
Someone once gave the analogy of climbing to the moon. You can report steady progress until you get to the top of the tree/mountain. I think this is applicable here. We'll need a new paradigm, beyond statistical learning, to create AGI
- lightcatcher 11y ago> We'll need a new paradigm, beyond statistical learning, to create AGI What makes you say that? Can you suggest a problem that you think is not addressable by statistical learning?
- jholman 11y agoThe many facets of human thought include planning towards novel goals, inferring others' goals from their actions, learning structured theories to describe the rules of the world, inventing experiments to test those theories, and learning to recognise new object kinds from just one example.
- paganel 11y agoThat and machines making up jokes. And word puns. And jokes again, and machines understanding and enjoying said jokes.
- upquark 11y agoNot being able to imagine how method A may produce result B is no evidence against method A. It may very well be evidence towards lack of imagination :)
- ZeroFries 11y agoThe phenomenal binding problem.
- proc0 11y agoDavid Deustch has an article online somewhere and his conclusion is that the leap has to be made by philosophy first. We need to first figure out the theory of intelligence and potentially consciousness first, and then information theory will follow.