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>Writing a program that writes a program? Definitely AI. So do you think the following is AI? print("print('Hello World!')") It is a program which writes a pr

by xamuel 7y ago

>Writing a program that writes a program? Definitely AI. So do you think the following is AI? print("print('Hello World!')") It is a program which writes a program, so by what you've just said, it's AI... Aside: For people interested in programs that write programs (that write programs, that write programs, that write programs ...), the following repo might be interesting: https://github.com/semitrivial/ions https://github.com/semitrivial/ions

sacado2 7y ago
You're taking my sentence a bit too literally there. Take it as a heuristic, not as a formal definition. Anyway nobody's able to give a compact definition of AI that cannot be destroyed by a ton of counter-examples.