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Innovation is simply a result of trying to imitate, but adding errors. That's how humans do it. Add in some darwinism so that the best 'innovations' survive. Ma
by Geee 3y ago
Innovation is simply a result of trying to imitate, but adding errors. That's how humans do it. Add in some darwinism so that the best 'innovations' survive. Made a mistake in making food? Oh, that's a new recipe. Can't really remember how to tell the story? Well, that's a new story. Accidentally kicked a ball while trying to just walk? I just invented soccer. And so on.
- klabb3 3y agoPartly yes. But if you throw a million items at the wall you also have tell which ones stick. An infinite random walk isn’t useful unless you have infinite verification to determine what is promising, so you can guide your next steps and continue discovering stuff.
- hackerlight 3y ago> An infinite random walk It's not purely random. Alpha Go doesn't search random moves, it searches a subset of possible moves that are probably good. The Darwinian analogy of the GP is apt. We're not as cognitively flexible as we like to believe. We die, and our children are exposed to new training data which causes them to believe different things. That's part of how we adapt as a species. Sort of like how GPT keeps changing as it gets retrained on new data.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoDeliberate innovation is absolutely possible, I don't know why you would claim it's not.