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A half-joking prediction: at some point we'll solve all arbitrarily hard milestones for AIs and yet find ourselves 'nowhere near having real general intelligen
by dexen 6y ago
A half-joking prediction:
at some point we'll solve all arbitrarily hard milestones for AIs and yet find ourselves 'nowhere near having real general intelligence'.
At that point we might start questioning our assumptions about intelligence.
- arethuza 6y agoWell, if those hard milestones include "building an AI system to solve a given problem" then I'd agree with you.
- dexen 6y agoWith intelligence, the territory is not the map :-)
- pnutjam 6y agohttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91177/how-our-eyes-see-everything-upside-down https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/91177/how-our-eyes-see-e... Until we can understand and correct unconcious inferences, how can we ever understand intelligence.
- dexen 6y agoIn the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe." "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play." Minsky shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.
- notRobot 6y agoPlease don't use code blocks for quotes. It makes it very hard to read text on mobile, narrow viewports or via screen readers.