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I expect your conjecture is correct. That's the whole point of deep learning -- there are many layers that automate what would otherwise be human feature extrac

• visarga 9y ago
  The magic here doesn't come solely from deep learning, but also from having access to massive simulation. Simulation can make an almost average human-level deep neural net become better than the best human. It happened for Go as well, where AlphaGo learned by self playing millions of games. I think there is a deep link between simulation and AGI. An AGI would need to be able to imagine how people and objects would act and react in any situation, which is the same as the ability to simulate the world, or to imagine. We might be able to create small simulations like Dota2, but the real world will be much harder.
  • jamiek88 9y ago
    Yes, I've often thought that too, and really as humans we are running simulations all the time in our head. That's kind of what imagination is. We run through conversations, physical events / muscle memory, are constantly predicting the world around us - we often don't even remember moving through the environment on regular routes unless something unusual disturbs our running predictions. It's super interesting to see some of that come through, sure in a more 'brute force' manner, but we randomly brute force bumped through the world as children too, until we pruned our selection trees.