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I didn't read it that way. You're essentially reading it as the monkeys will eventually write Shakespeare scenario. The way I read it was, you have a robot and
by JustAnotherPat 9y ago
I didn't read it that way. You're essentially reading it as the monkeys will eventually write Shakespeare scenario.
The way I read it was, you have a robot and it:
1. knows it has to build a ferrari (implying it knows what it looks like at least)
2. knows nothing about building, parts, etc
3. can engage in some sort of learning behavior
Once a robot knows it can only connect two parts by screwing them together, it will only try to screw them together, and it might even transfer that behavior over to other parts.
The possible scenarios become much more limited as the robot gets smarter.
- squeaky-clean 9y ago> Once a robot knows it can only connect two parts by screwing them together, it will only try to screw them together, and it might even transfer that behavior over to other parts. Why would learning to screw invalidate other means of connecting things? Why not use an adhesive? Or weld the parts together? Or shape the materials so they can be joined without a separate fastener, like a dovetail or something. Even if it learns those, how does it know there isn't some way of connecting two parts by a chemical means that humans haven't discovered?
- goatlover 9y agoThis wouldn't work for a human being who knows nothing about making automobiles, so why would it work for a robot?
- allenz 9y agoYou're probably imagining an assembly line, where one step follows another in a logical procession, and there doesn't seem to be much of a branching factor. However, each step along that line is the process of many deep optimizations. It is more complicated than you think; thousands of people work on it. Consider just the case of choosing a screw, probably one of the most simple steps in building a car. These 24 pages only scratch the surface of the choices available: http://www.fastecindustrial.com/images/MediaCatFastener.pdf http://www.fastecindustrial.com/images/MediaCatFastener.pdf