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A statistical learning model concluding that 'the thunder gods make the crops grow' would not make it a failure. Indeed that's what people thought for thousands
by discodave 13y ago
A statistical learning model concluding that 'the thunder gods make the crops grow' would not make it a failure. Indeed that's what people thought for thousands of years!
I think you're confusing good AI with being 'smarter than humans'.
An AI can still pass the Turing test if it believes in Scientology or any of the other nonsesne beliefs that humans have.
- Daniel_Newby 13y agoThat's fine if you want an AI hunter-gatherer. To have an AI scientist or engineer you need a rational thinking layer on top of the ML layer, so it can create hypotheses and try to falsify them. I predict the rational thinking layer will be built with good old fashioned AI: symbol processing, theorem proving, etc. Getting this to talk to the fuzzy ML layer will be a challenge.