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This program, like everything that has been called "AI", is following an algorithm. It's an impressive algorithm but not fundamentally different from my dishwas
by tikwidd 4y ago
This program, like everything that has been called "AI", is following an algorithm. It's an impressive algorithm but not fundamentally different from my dishwasher.
In the Enlightenment period, philosophers and scientists marvelled at mechanical automata, machines that simulated aspects of digestion, the circulatory system and the brain. New developments in machine learning are rehashing the same philosophical questions that were raised in the 17th century in response to technological progress.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoBut it doesn't. That's different for neural networks : there is no pre-made algorithm that someone would implement (well, except for the overall architecture, but that's not what we are talking about).
- tikwidd 4y agoAn algorithm with an indeterminate output is still an algorithm.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoThe issue here is not so much that it's the output that is indeterminate, but the "algorithm" itself.
- tikwidd 4y agoThere's nothing indeterminate about the algorithm though. It's a fixed set of instructions fed into a Turing compatible machine like any other program.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoAnd there's nothing indeterminate about the results of a pseudo-random number generator, but you seem to be missing my point ?
- ItsMattyG 4y agoLet's just keep moving those goal posts.
- tikwidd 4y agoThe goalposts should be to create something useful, not trying to reach some nebulous criterion of "true intelligence". Submarine engineers don't labour over the question of whether their new designs are "truly swimming".
- benlivengood 4y agoI, as a human, am following an algorithm similar to QCD for moving subatomic particles around which is fundamentally the same way a dishwasher moves particles around. Intelligence is mechanical in the Physics sense.