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This isn't just about keeping options open. Entropy can be seen as a measure of available useful energy. It seems that it would be natural for human intellige

This isn't just about keeping options open. Entropy can be seen as a measure of available useful energy. It seems that it would be natural for human intelligence to have evolved to maintain as much useful energy as possible, since that would no doubt aid survival. If that's true, I don't think it's as much that the developed process mimic intelligence, as much as that both (human) intelligence and this process act to meet the same ends.

scotty79 14y ago
I think this research is the missing part of the puzzle of constructing truly intelligent (even sentient) artificial life. We can't do it the way evolution did it because evolution does not work on individuals and we don't have enough computing power to simulate whole population of artificial human sized brains and let them figure out on their own that they should maximize their available useful resources while still reproducing and evolving towards better architecture. That would lead to intelligence same way real evolution reached it but we neither have power nor time for that. Besides, even if we succeeded ... do we really want to share the world with thousands AI-s all trying to maximize useful resources available to them? Competition breeds innovation but also breeds war. If you design AI and give it a specific goal you never get intelligence, you are just getting useful machine that achieves the goal brilliantly. With this discovery we finally know how to set the goal to be "act intelligent" If you artificially set the goal to be to maximize the possible futures that the AI can make real from the present point we can get entity that behaves in a way we recognize as intelligent. We just have to remember to be really sure that this AI models world correctly enough to know that more potential futures could be realized by keeping animals (including humans) around and ... you now ... not make them suffer.

scotty79 14y ago

I think this research is the missing part of the puzzle of constructing truly intelligent (even sentient) artificial life. We can't do it the way evolution did it because evolution does not work on individuals and we don't have enough computing power to simulate whole population of artificial human sized brains and let them figure out on their own that they should maximize their available useful resources while still reproducing and evolving towards better architecture. That would lead to intelligence same way real evolution reached it but we neither have power nor time for that. Besides, even if we succeeded ... do we really want to share the world with thousands AI-s all trying to maximize useful resources available to them? Competition breeds innovation but also breeds war. If you design AI and give it a specific goal you never get intelligence, you are just getting useful machine that achieves the goal brilliantly. With this discovery we finally know how to set the goal to be "act intelligent" If you artificially set the goal to be to maximize the possible futures that the AI can make real from the present point we can get entity that behaves in a way we recognize as intelligent. We just have to remember to be really sure that this AI models world correctly enough to know that more potential futures could be realized by keeping animals (including humans) around and ... you now ... not make them suffer.