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I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but in 1979, Douglas Hofstadter wrote in his book "Godel, Escher and Bach" something to the effect of: "It may be t
by commandlinefan 8y ago
I don't have the exact quote in front of me, but in 1979, Douglas Hofstadter wrote in his book "Godel, Escher and Bach" something to the effect of: "It may be that some day a computer can beat a human at chess, but when it happens, it will be by the sort of computer that will say, 'no, I'm bored with chess, I would rather talk about poetry'". If Hofstadter can be wrong about anything, anybody can be wrong about anything.
- the_af 8y agoNice quote! Wasn't there an assertion, mentioned several times here on HN, that researchers have found that with AI the seemingly hard becomes easy (e.g. playing chess) and the seemingly easy becomes hard (e.g. walking or... becoming bored with chess)? It now seems qualitatively harder to design a program capable of boredom than one capable of being a chess master.
- baddox 8y agoThat sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox