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Interesting read, thank you for sharing. The author summarizes the thesis of the OpenAI team to be that by exposing AIs to a variety of experiences, the AIs wil
by ramzyo 10y ago
Interesting read, thank you for sharing. The author summarizes the thesis of the OpenAI team to be that by exposing AIs to a variety of experiences, the AIs will learn flexible problem solving skills. I'm not convinced this is true. Without imparting upon the AI some mechanism for reasoning across experiences, (e.g. reasoning through analogy), the AI will simply be trained on many specific experiences. How does the AI make the leap from being trained on these specific experiences to abstracting and drawing comparisons between them? This ability is crucial to generalizable AI.
The author mentions transfer learning but sort of glosses over it. She writes, "And according to OpenAI, we’re slowly getting there: some of their agents already show signs of transferring some learning from one driving game to another." Which signs? How much is "some?" Driving game to driving game is interesting, but what about driving a car to driving a boat? Interested to hear more about this.
- moxious 10y agoI just don't trust general, high level descriptions. People have been going at this goal for decades without much proveable success on general intelligence. So when I read generalities I think they're not any further, just still trying. But when someone gives you a gory technical breakdown of a subproblem, that's when you know you've got something and they're serious.
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- causalmachine 10y agoSee alpha go.............,... SEPARATELY, the human brain calculates roughly 10^16 to 10^18 synaptic operations per second. (Exascale Computation) THIS DAY, artificial neural models calculate 10^14+ synaptic operations per second. BY EXTENSION, artificial cognitive models have reduced larger number of cognitive tasks, as time diverged, in tandem with enhanced parallelism. THUSLY, exascale artificial neural models are but likely by 2020. (Moore's Law) It requires not Einsteinian intellect, such that one observes the prior sequence.
- maerF0x0 10y agoI think the concept of reasoning through analogy could kind of be like "call a friend" on game shows. If an AI had a directory of task specific agents, it could call on those agents to provide "advice".
- ramzyo 10y agoThis is a really interesting idea, thanks for sharing!