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Language acquisition. Sure, parents will point at an object and say, "Ball", "Chair", "Food", etc. But they don't do this for the conjunctions and interjections
by function_seven 9y ago
Language acquisition. Sure, parents will point at an object and say, "Ball", "Chair", "Food", etc. But they don't do this for the conjunctions and interjections and prepositions. Nor for most of the 10,000 words a child will learn in the first few years of life.
Children learn the rules of grammar long before they realize there are any rules at all. Tenses and plurals, etc.
- eanzenberg 9y agoIt's amazing how little people on this site know or understand intelligence, artificial and human. You would be surprised how much infants learn from listening around them and how long it takes to learn that language, and how a brain interprets language was formed through so many years of evolution to be highly tuned to learn language fast.
- function_seven 9y agoWe're arguing past each other then. I have no doubt that evolution is the essential thing that made us capable of unsupervised learning. That's not the central point of the debate for me. What I'm talking about is the problem of replicating that ability (unsupervised learning) in AI systems. We don't have the luxury of billions of years of evolution to do it. So we need to engineer another way. I understood your previous comments as diminishing the sheer amount of unsupervised learning we do as humans.
- eanzenberg 9y agoYes you're an idiot with an army of trolls ready to downvote me. Read the above comments to get a sense of how much of an idiot you are about intelligence.
- sctb 9y agoThis comment seriously violates the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please stop and re-read them.