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The reason why, is because people believe the human brain is just an incredibly complex state machine. If it is, then it should be reproducible.
by thorwasdfasdf 7y ago
The reason why, is because people believe the human brain is just an incredibly complex state machine. If it is, then it should be reproducible.
- jakeogh 7y agoThat assumption may be technically correct (I don't think it is but that's a different conversation), but it's very likely to be practically wrong in the "galatic alg" sense. By that I mean that the complexity is so many magnitudes off that it's intractable with traditional binary computing. The pre programmed car would melt it's way through the concrete. This is relevant: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50....
- mhermher 7y agoBut we actually understand so little about how the brain works, let alone how intelligence emerges from it. What I am saying is that AGI may be impossible, but people are so determined that it's just around the corner with enough hardware and clever enough software. It's just around the corner, and we don't even know whether it is possible.
- plutonorm 7y agoPerhaps it is perhaps it isn't. But we can now equal and sometimes beat human perception on some standard machine learning datasets. Perception is one very large piece of the problem. The other large part shows some signs of cracking, consider the recent success in go and poker. AI can now beat professional players in both of these games. Agreed these are a different class of problem to realtime learning in a dynamic environment, but there is interesting progress here. I'd wager that we're less than 20 years away from a useful general intelligence that could say, earn money on mechanical Turk. And the recent succes with transformer networks understanding text. Incredible.