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They beat Go 10 years before anyone predicted. The point is that AI is accelerating in its progress.
by blueyes 10y ago
They beat Go 10 years before anyone predicted. The point is that AI is accelerating in its progress.
- kobeya 10y agoHe addresses this specifically in the article, using deep blue instead of alphago. Game playing AI is not progress towards AGI.
- blueyes 10y agoHe does not address it in the article. As with most of his points, that one is irrelevant. What's important here is that AI is beating more and more complex games such that, directionally, it eventually be able to play (cough) the game of life, or some important subset of that game, which will be close to AGI. Chess is computable and AI beat it decades ago. Go is not fully computable, and AI won at it recently. It solved a much more complex problem. What's more, Deep Blue has zero to do with the boom in AI that is under way. AlphaGo does. It is part of a wave of recent progress of which the author apparently knows little, because he focuses on Watson and other phenomena that are not central to what's important in AI now. What would constitute progress toward AGI if not the ability to solve more and more complex problems? Winning at Go involved high-performance machine vision, and I think we'll all admit that vision is an important part of how an intelligence will operate in the world. It also involved reinforcement, or goal-oriented, learning, another crucial strategy for an eventual AGI.